Opening Remarks By Carla Kaplan

Carla Kaplan, Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University, is the founding director of the Humanities Center. Her recent books include the award-winning Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters (Doubleday/Anchor) and the forthcoming books Miss Anne in Harlem: the White Women of the Black Renaissance and Queen of the Muckrakers: the Life of Jessica Mitford, both with HarperCollins. A member of numerous national institutes, Professor Kaplan also writes occasionally for such publications as The Nation and The Los Angeles Times.

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