Harvard University

Graduate Student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Other Affiliations: Emerson College, Performing Arts

Instructor

Thesis Title: "Staging Jewish Modernism: The Vilna Troupe and the Rise of a Transnational Yiddish Art Theater Movement"

About

I am a PhD candidate in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, in the Yiddish Studies program. My interdisciplinary research focuses on Yiddish theater, Jewish performance and theatrical modernism around the world. Please visit www.debracaplan.com/research for more on my current projects.

My research on Yiddish theater topics has been published in Comparative Drama and New England Theater Journal.

I received my B.A. from Hampshire College in 2007 in Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature, where I also worked as a cataloger, tour guide, and fellow at the National Yiddish Book Center.

I have taught courses in theater history and Jewish studies at Harvard and at Emerson College. In addition to my academic pursuits, I am also a director and translator for the theater.

I am also the Executive Director of the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard: http://thschool.fas.harvard.edu

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