Deborah Kaplan, Digital Resources Archivist

Voice: 617.627.4347

Fax: 617.627.4650

Email: deborah.kaplan @ tufts.edu

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What I Do

Deborah is the Digital Resources Archivist at DCA. She's responsible for getting materials into the Tufts Digital Repository, and she helps coordinate many of DCA's technology projects.

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Education

• Haverford College.
• M.A. in Children's Literature, Simmons College.
• M.S. in Library and Information Science, Simmons College.

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Selected Publications

• "Construction of Fan Fiction Character through Narrative." Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. Eds. Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse: McFarland, 2006.
• With Rebecca Rabinowitz. "'Beautiful, or Thick, or Right, or Complicated': Queer Heterosexuality in the Young Adult Works of Cynthia Voigt." Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature. Ed. Richard Fantina: McFarland, 2006.
• "Read All Over: Postmodern Resolution in Macaulay's Black and White." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 28 (2003).
• "Diana Wynne Jones and the World-Shaping Power of Language." Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom. Eds. Teya Rosenberg, et al. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. Vol. 1 of Studies in Children's Literature. Ed. Walter Moebius.

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Selected Presentations

• "Choosing a Digital Asset Management System that’s Right for You." New England Archivists. University of Connecticut, Storrs, 2007.
• With Amy Stern. "'Twenty Pages Left. Can't Wait.': Young Adult Novel As Television Series and Television Series As Young Adult Novel." Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference. Boston, MA, 2007 (forthcoming).
• "Construction of Gender in Three Novels." Children's Literature Association Conference. Roanoake, VA, 2000.

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Professional affiliations

• Review Editor for Transformative Works and Cultures
• Reviewer for the Journal of Web Librarianship, Kirkus Riviews, and others.