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Prentiss Clark is an Associate Professor in the Department of English. She is author of Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Companion (McFarland 2022), “‘The arch abolitionist’: Emerson, Love, and Social Justice” (The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson), and “‘Allied to all’: Emerson and Ethics Beyond Self-Reliance” (forthcoming in the New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson). She is a past-president of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and a contributing editor to James Baldwin Review. Her articles appear in Nineteenth-Century Literature, James Baldwin Review, and Henry James Review. Work in progress includes a monograph on Emerson and Baldwin titled Jimmy & Waldo.
U.S. literature and culture (especially nineteenth and early-twentieth century); literature and philosophy; literature and civic living; aesthetics. Recent graduate courses include “‘Perception at the pitch of passion’: Henry James & James Baldwin,” “Writing the ‘American Renaissance’ from the 19th Century to Now,” “Investigating the Ethical Life in Literature,” and “Aesthetics.” Recent undergraduate courses include "American Literature I," "The American Novel," and "Introduction to Criticism."
U.S. literature (especially the long nineteenth century); literature and philosophy; aesthetics; humanities advocacy; Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Henry and William James, the poetries of Whitman, Dickinson, and Wallace Stevens, and writing in all forms.
