Amy W. Clark
Assistant Professor, Literature
Contact
- Office: Tribble C5D
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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 308: Beowulf & Friends
- ENG 305/605 Introduction to Old English
- ENG 302/602: Beyond England: Early Medieval Travelers, Missionaries, and Immigrants in Early Medieval Literature
- ENG 302: The Sword and the Screen: New Tricks with Old Texts
- ENG 265: British Literature Before 1800
- ENG 190: Listicle Literature: The History of a Form
- ENG 165: Riddle Me This: Puzzles, Puns, and Palimpsests
- ENG 165: What She Said: Women’s Voices in Old English
- ENG 150: Rewriting the Medieval: Modern Interpretations of Past Texts
Selected Publications
BOOKS
- Navigating Landmarks of Identity in Pre-Conquest English Literature, under contract with Cambridge University Press.
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
- “Many Paths Across Pale Fields: Repetition and Doubling in Early English Missionary Latin,” forthcoming from Speculum (2027).
- “The West Saxon Boundary Clause in Context: Celtic and Continental Connections,” Early Medieval Europe (2023).
- “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.