Dr. Brett Ashley Kaplan directs the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is a professor of Comparative and World Literature.

Widely published, you can find her writing in Haaretz, The Conversation, Salon.com, AJS Perspectives, Contemporary Literature, Edge Effects, and the Jewish Review of Books. She has been interviewed on NPR, the AJS Podcast, and The 21st.

Following her edited collection, Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches (forthcoming from Bloomsbury), and she is at work on a co-edited collection (with Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and Sara Feldman) entitled Blewish: Contemporary Black-Jewish Voices. She is also working on a second novel, Vandervelde Downs, about the recovery of Nazi-looted objects found in a Vietnamese Refugee Center in provincial England.