Amy W. Clark
Assistant Professor, Literature
Contact
Office: Tribble C5D
Email: clarka@wfu.edu
Degrees
Ph.D. in English and Medieval Studies (UC Berkeley)
MA in Creative Writing (UC Berkeley)
Areas of Interest
Old English language and literature, Middle English literature, digital humanities, environmental humanities and eco-criticism, new materialisms, diasporic literatures, identity formation studies
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
ENG 165: Riddle Me This: Puzzles, Puns, and Palimpsests
ENG 302/602: Beyond England: Early Medieval Travelers, Missionaries, and Immigrants
Selected Publications
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
“The West Saxon Boundary Clause in Context: Celtic and Continental Connections,” Early Medieval Europe (forthcoming)
“As Though ‘Wit’ Never Were: The Dual Pronoun as Interpretive Crux in The Wife’s Lament,” JEGP (forthcoming, 2022)
“Sweart as Sin: Color Connotation and Morality in Anglo-Saxon England,” in Darkness, Depression and Descent in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Ruth Wehlau, Richard Rawlinson Center Series in Anglo-Saxon Studies (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2019), pp. 15-36.
“More Than Meets the Eye: Cultural Color Resonances in Old English Literature,” in The Daily Lives of the Anglo-Saxons, ed. Carole Biggam, Carole Hough, and Daria Izdebska, Essays in Anglo-Saxons Studies 8 (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2018), pp. 139-157.
BOOK MANUSCRIPT (in progress)
The Well-Known Way: Landmarks of Identity in Pre-Conquest England