Edward K. Kaplan, Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities at Brandeis University, teaches French and comparative literature and religious studies. He is the author of "Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Esthetic, the Ethical, and the Religious in The Parisian Prowler" (Georgia). His translation of Baudelaire's "Parisian Prowler" (Georgia) is a winner of the Lewis Galantiere Prize of the American Translators Association and a "Choice" Outstanding Academic Book.