Dr. Marc Caplan Named CJS Associate Director
The Center for Jewish Studies is excited to announce that Dr. Marc Caplan will be joining the Center as Associate Director and Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Dr. Marc Caplan is a distinguished scholar and experienced educator dedicated to studying and teaching Yiddish culture in comparative contexts including literature, music, film, modern thought, and popular culture. Dr. Caplan is a native of Louisiana who received his undergraduate degree at Yale University and his PhD in comparative literature from NYU. Since then, he has held research fellowships and professorial appointments at academic institutions in the US, Israel, Austria, Poland, and Germany. He comes to the Twin Cities most recently from Dartmouth College, where he was a Brownstone Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies. Dr. Caplan is the author of two books, How Strange the Change: Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms — a comparison of Yiddish and African literatures (Stanford UP, 2011) — and Yiddish Literature in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism (Indiana UP, 2021).
Dr. Caplan is joining the Center's leadership team with the start of the 2026–27 academic year, and he will be relocating to the Twin Cities in October. You can reach him at [email protected]!
