English - Bio - Jill Clark
Dr. Jill Clark is Assistant Professor of British Literature at Fisk University. She teaches British Surveys I & II (British Modernism, The Brownings, British Novels, and British Abolitionist Poetry); Gothic Literature and Film; Literary Criticism; Continental Masterpieces; Core Composition; and Core Varieties of Literature. Dr. Clark has published in Conradiana, Intertexts, and Interculture. Specializing in Literature and Science, Dr. Clark received her interdisciplinary Ph.D. in English from Texas Tech University in 2001, and she received her BA and MA in English from The University of Texas at Arlington in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Her dissertation is entitled The Science of Modernism: Degeneration, Dynamics, and Demons, applying chaos theory to Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, the Vorticist poems of Ezra Pound, and the film Metropolis. Dr. Clark recently made the 2005-2006 Who's Who for Professionals and Executives and the 2006-2007 Who's Who of American Women.