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Dr Douglas Clark

PhD

Contact Details

Postdoctoral Researcher
Post Doctoral Researcher
SECA
Moore Institute
University of Galway
E: clarkd@universityofgalway.ie
 
researcher
 

Biography

Douglas Clark is a researcher on the European Research Council-funded project "STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475-1700". Prior to joining the STEMMA project, Douglas was a Senior Researcher for Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project "Civility, Cultural Exchange and Conduct Literature in Early Modern England, 1500-1700" at Université de Neuchâtel. Douglas was a residential research fellow at the Newberry Library in 2022. In summer 2024, he will be a residential research fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Douglas is a specialist of sixteenth and seventeenth-century British literature who has published widely on the prose, drama, and poetry of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. His scholarship has recently appeared in the journals Renaissance Drama, Studies in Philology, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, and Women's Writing. His first book, The Will in English Renaissance Drama, will be published with Cambridge University Press in 2024.


Research Interests

Time Period: Early Modern, 1500-1700; Elizabethan and Jacobean; Long Eighteenth Century.

Genres: Conduct Literature; Lyric and Narrative Poetry; Moral Philosophy; Tragic Drama; Tudor Interludes.

Topics/Areas: Analytical and Descriptive Bibliography; Blue Humanities; Cognitive Studies; Ecocriticism; History of the Book in Europe; History of Poetics; Palaeography and Manuscript Studies; Philosophies of Mind; Reception of Classics.

Special Author Interest: Nicholas Breton, Elizabeth Cary, Abraham Cowley, John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Nashe, William Shakespeare, Isabella Whitney.













Research Projects

  Project Start Date End Date
Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475-1700 01-SEP-23 31-AUG-28

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2024) 'Isabella Whitney's Bruised Brain: Taking Care of the Mind in Elizabethan Poetic Posies'
Douglas Clark (2024) 'Isabella Whitney's Bruised Brain: Taking Care of the Mind in Elizabethan Poetic Posies'. Women's Writing, 31 (1):49-66 [DOI] [Details]
(2023) 'John Donne and the Legacy of Early Modern Testamentary Verse'
Douglas Clark (2023) 'John Donne and the Legacy of Early Modern Testamentary Verse'. Studies in Philology, 120 (2):221-246 [DOI] [Details]
(2023) 'The Transgressive Will in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe and Elizabeth Cary'
Douglas Clark (2023) 'The Transgressive Will in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe and Elizabeth Cary'. Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 36 :119-148 [Details]
(2022) 'The Will and Testament in English Renaissance Drama: Paper Props, Property, and Ulpian Fulwell's Like Will to Like'
Douglas Clark (2022) 'The Will and Testament in English Renaissance Drama: Paper Props, Property, and Ulpian Fulwell's Like Will to Like'. Renaissance Drama, 50 (1):103-130 [DOI] [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
(2024) 'The Sea of the Mind in Early Modern Poetry'
Douglas Clark (2024) 'The Sea of the Mind in Early Modern Poetry' In: Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature. :137-155 Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Details]
(2016) 'The Will and Testamentary Eroticism in Shakespearean Drama'
Douglas Clark (2016) 'The Will and Testamentary Eroticism in Shakespearean Drama' In: Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England: Literature and the Erotics of Recollection. :30-42 London: Routledge. [DOI] [Details]
(2015) ''Existence - in itself': Emily Dickinson and the Movement to Absence in the Poetic Body'
Douglas Clark (2015) ''Existence - in itself': Emily Dickinson and the Movement to Absence in the Poetic Body' In: Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement. :153-168 London: Routledge. [Details]

ANET/COS

  Year Publication
(2017) Review: 'Lucretius and the Early Modern'.
Douglas Clark (2017) Review: 'Lucretius and the Early Modern'. Renaissance Studies: Wiley ANET/COS [DOI] [Details]

Reviews

  Year Publication
(2022) Review: 'Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England'.
Douglas Clark (2022) Review: 'Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England'. The Seventeenth Century: Taylor & Francis Reviews [DOI] [Details]
(2023) Review: 'Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England'.
Douglas Clark (2023) Review: 'Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England'. The Seventeenth Century: Taylor & Francis Reviews [DOI] [Details]
(2019) Review: 'The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage'.
Douglas Clark (2019) Review: 'The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage'. Renaissance Studies: Wiley Reviews [DOI] [Details]

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2024 Folger Shakespeare Library Short-Term Research Fellowship The Folger Shakespeare Library
2022 Newberry-Rylands Exchange Fellow Newberry Library, Chicago
2019 William T. Buice III Scholarship Rare Book School, University of Virginia
2018 The Directors' Scholarship Rare Book School, University of Virginia

Professional Associations

  Association Function From / To
Advance HE (Higher Education Academy) Fellow 13-NOV-17 /
Shakespeare Association of America Member 07-APR-14 /
Renaissance Society of America Member 14-APR-15 /

Languages

  Language
French

Teaching Interests

History of Poetics; Early Modern Literature, 1500-1700; English Renaissance Drama; Eighteenth-Century Prose; Romantic Poetry.