Tuesday 2-3 pm; Thursday 11 am-12 pm or by appointment
PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Miriam Marty Clark received her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A specialist in modern and contemporary American literature, she teaches and publishes on poetry, fiction, literary theory, and twentieth-century American culture; she also has a growing expertise in the scholarship and practice of pedagogy. She is currently finishing a book Poetry as Inquiry: Ethical and Religious Questions in Four Contemporary Poets, which focuses on poets Adrienne Rich, Charles Wright, Susan Howe, and Jean Valentine. In addition, she is leading a grant-funded project, Becoming Professional, which is designed to help students in the humanities and other liberal arts disciplines map pathways into meaningful work.
20th to 21st-century American literature; the short story; comparative/world/postcolonial literature; genre studies; fiction; poetry