Emily Clark

Dr. Emily Clark is Professor and Chair of English at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English from Texas A&M University and her Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina – Greensboro. Her specialties include Twentieth-Century British Literature, particularly Modernism and Virginia Woolf, Literary Theory, and Women’s and Gender Studies. She is the founder pf the UIW Women’s and Gender Studies program, and her publications include chapters on Virginia Woolf, Gender, and Space in The Power of the Word, and in Constructing the Literary Self: Race and Gender in Twentieth Century Literature. She is also co-editor of two editions of The Water and Culture Reader. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Time and Nature in Virginia Woolf’s Narrative Process and an article entitled “Burning Down the House: Re-Reading Homi Bhabha, Virginia Woolf, and Toni Morrison Circa 2020.”

• Ph.D. English - The University of North Carolina - Greensboro
• M.A. English - Texas A&M University
• B.A. English - Texas A&M University