Education
Ph.D. in English, University of Georgia
M.A. in English, University of Georgia
M.A. in Secondary English Education, Furman University
B.A. in English, Wheaton College (IL)

Teaching and Research Interests / Recent Publications or Scholarly Output
Dr. Clark’s research interests include American literature, science fiction, the short story, anime and animation, memetics, and interactive media.

Selected Publications:

Book:

American Literary Minimalism. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2014.

Articles and Book Chapter:

“Silence, Implication, and Style in Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Bloodchild’.” Science Fiction Studies 52, no. 2 (2025). 211-229.

“Raymond Carver: ‘A Small, Good Thing’ and ‘Cathedral’.” In The Handbook of the American Short Story. Ed. Erik Redling and Oliver Scheiding. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. 493-511.

“Lydia Davis’s Psychological Minimalism.” Studies in the American Short Story 1, no. 1 (2020): 38-52.

“A Reverence for Untrendy Human Troubles: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Good People,’ Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephants,’ and American Minimalist Narration.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 62, no. 3 (2017).

“Keeping the Reader in the House: American Minimalism, Literary Impressionism, and Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral’.” Journal of Modern Literature 36, no. 1 (2012): 104-118.

“Toreo, Ritual, and Nationalism: The Cultural Context of María Cristina Mena’s ‘The Emotions of María Concepción’.” South Atlantic Review 75, no. 4 (2010): 73-90.

“At the Corner of Bourbon and Toulouse Street: The Historical Context of Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s ‘M’sieu Fortier’s Violin’.” American Literary Realism 41, no. 2 (2009): 163-79.

“Papa y El Tirador: Biographical Parallels in Hemingway’s ‘I Guess Everything Reminds You of Something’.” The Hemingway Review 27, no. 1 (2007): 89-106.