Rate My Professor Lindsay Kaplan

Georgetown University

Literature History Law Theology English and Literature Literary Theory Practice Dramaturgy / Dramatic Criticism Cultural Studies Gender Studies Religious Studies Law and Legal Studies

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5.08/20/2025

Always patient and encouraging to students.

5.03/31/2025

Makes learning interactive and fun.

4.02/27/2025

Encourages students to think critically.

5.02/5/2025

I’m so grateful for your respectful and inclusive approach. You created a safe space where all students felt heard and valued.

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About Lindsay

M. Lindsay Kaplan is a Professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University, where she has served on the faculty since 1993. She earned her B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. Kaplan teaches courses on medieval and early modern English literature and culture, with research and teaching specialties in pre-modern critical race studies, gender, Shakespeare, law, race, religious difference, and adaptation. Her scholarship examines the intersections of these themes in historical texts, contributing to understandings of how medieval Christian theological discourses constructed notions of racial inferiority, initially applied to Jews and later extended to Muslims and others. Kaplan's work traces continuities from medieval representations of Jews and Muslims as racialized enemies to early modern English drama.