Caren Kaplan

Caren Kaplan "is Chair of the Cultural Studies Graduate Group and Professor in Women and Gender Studies at UC Davis. She received her PhD in the History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz in 1987 and worked at Georgetown University and UC Berkeley before joining the faculty at UC Davis in 2004. Prof Kaplan is the author of Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke 1996) and the co-editor of Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (Minnesota 1994), Between Woman and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State (Duke 1999), and Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill 2001, 2005). Her current research focuses on digital humanities, visual culture, militarization and consumer subjects, and technologies of location and navigation." CV

Selected Articles

 * Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan, "Warrior Marks: Global Womanism's Neo-Colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context," In Ella Shohat and Robert Stam (eds), Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media Global Womanism's Neo-Colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context (Rutgers University Press, 2003) - first published in Camera Obscura 39 (Sep. 1996):5 –33. (Critique of Alice Walker)