Person

Clark, Prentiss

[19XX]

Bio: Prentiss Clark is an Associate Professor in the Department of English. She is author of Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Companion (2022), "'The arch abolitionist': Emerson, Love, and Social Justice" (in the forthcoming 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). Her articles appear in Nineteenth-Century Literature, the James Baldwin Review, and the Henry James Review. She is currently working on a monograph titled Measures of Intimacy: Emerson to Du Bois to Baldwin. Research Interest: U.S. literature (especially the long nineteenth century); literature and philosophy; literature and civic life; aesthetics; Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Henry and William James, the poetries of Whitman, Dickinson, and Wallace Stevens, and the craft of writing.