Gregory Kaplan

GREGORY B. KAPLAN is Professor of Spanish and serves as Associate Head of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures and Director of the Language and World Business program.

His principal area of research is medieval Spanish literature, and he has published articles on a variety of medieval topics in scholarly journals such as Bulletin of Spanish Studies, La corónica, Foreign Language Annals, Hispanic Review, Hispanófila, Quaderni Ibero-Americani, and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. He has also presented papers and published articles dealing with Spanish linguistics and Spanish literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. Professor Kaplan has published several books, including “Personality Disorders” and Other Stories, by Juan José Millás (trans. Gregory B. Kaplan, New York: Modern Language Association, 2007), El culto a San Millán en Valderredible (Cantabria): Las iglesias rupestres y la formación del Camino de Santiago (Santander: Gobierno de Cantabria, Consejería de Cultura, Turismo y Deporte, 2007), Sixteenth-Century Spanish Writers (ed. and intro. Gregory B. Kaplan, vol. 318 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography series, Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2006), The Evolution of “Converso” Literature: The Writings of the Converted Jews of Medieval Spain (U Press of Florida, 2002), and Español para los negocios: Estudios de casos (co-written with Irene Mizrahi, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998).

Professor Kaplan is currently working on a monograph dealing with the origins of the Spanish language in Valderredible, the southernmost region of Cantabria, Spain, and a co-edited volume of essays on converso literature.

Contact Information

Gregory Kaplan
Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
610 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-7003
E-Mail: gkaplan@utk.edu