E. Ann Kaplan Distinguished Professor Director, The Humanties Institute E4341 Melville Library Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-3394 Tel:(631) 632-7765 Fax:(631) 632-7794 eakaplan@notes.cc.sunysb.edu ek361@msn.com

E. Ann Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University, where she also founded and directs the Humanities Institute. She is also President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Kaplan has written many books and articles on topics in cultural studies, media, and women's studies, from diverse theoretical perspectives including psychoanalysis, feminism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism. She has given lectures all over the world and her work has been translated into six languages. Her many books include most recently Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature (Rutgers University Press, 2005), Looking For the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze (Routledge, 1997), Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction (Rutgers University Press, 1998, co-edited with Susan Squier) and Feminism and Film (Oxford University Press, 2000). Her volume, Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations (co-edited with Ban Wang) appeared from Hong Kong University Press in 2004.