found: Univ. of Pennsylvania, Dept. of English WWW site, viewed Aug. 11, 2020(Amy Kaplan, Edward W. Kane Professor of English; working in the interdisciplinary field of American studies, Amy Kaplan focused in her teaching and scholarship on the culture of imperialism, comparative perspectives on the Americas, prison writing, the American novel, and mourning, memory, and war. Kaplan received her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University, with a specialty in late-nineteenth-century American literature. Amy Kaplan, 66, died at home in Philadelphia on July 30, 2020; born in New York City; spent her early career at Yale and then at Mt. Holyoke College; scholar of American literary and cultural studies; lists publications. Her final book is Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance. It is animated by the shadow history of her own life as a young Jewish intellectual in the 1960s [sic apparent internal discrepancy with reported age at death])