Deborah Clarke

About

Deborah Clarke is a Professor of English in the Department of English at Arizona State University, where she has been a faculty member since 2008. Her primary research interests focus on twentieth-century American fiction, with particular emphasis on William Faulkner and women writers. Her scholarly work explores themes such as the tension between body and language in Faulkner's women characters, and the intersection of women and automobile culture in American fiction, examining issues of technology, mobility, domesticity, and agency. Clarke is working on a book about modernist domesticity, analyzing how the domestic sphere functions as a destabilizing force in modern fiction. In addition to her research, Clarke has held various administrative roles, including Senior Associate Dean of Faculty at the John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering and interim Associate Dean of Faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her academic background includes a Ph.D. from Yale University and a B.A. from the University of Michigan. Her work has been supported by the NEH and the Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and she has served as a Beatrice Bain Research Fellow at UC Berkeley. Clarke has also contributed to the field through numerous lectures, conference presentations, and editorial and committee roles, and has received teaching and advising awards throughout her career.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Medicine
• Sociology
• Medical education
• Computer Science
• Pedagogy
• Psychology
• Law
• Multimedia
• Geography

Selected publications

• Gatsby’s Third Car

  The F Scott Fitzgerald Review · 2020 · 11 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Abstract This article argues that Gatsby’s “circus wagon” car is not a Rolls-Royce but a custom-built car. Acknowledging the existence of a custom car aligns Gatsby with celebrity culture and modernist instability, and it highlights the role of the automobile in shaping identity. The ostentatious vehicle reflects a desperate attempt to claim uniqueness and authenticity in a world increasingly defined by Hollywood imagery and Fordist assembly line ideology. By placing Gatsby, through his car, wit…

  PublisherDOI

• Wilderness Domesticity: Men without Women?

  Women s Studies · 2024-02-28 · 1 citations

  article1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherDOI

• Enhancing Pre-service Teachers’ Preparedness for Professional Experience Placement and Employment: Authentic School-University Partnership Opportunities

  ˜The œAustralian journal of teacher education · 2025-01-01

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  The transition from university learning to classroom application presents a challenge in initial teacher education. This transition results in ‘praxis shock’; a term coined to describe the confronting exposure to the gritty realities of the classroom. This case study investigated a school-university partnership that drew on authentic learning activities using a team-teaching model to address the praxis shock challenge. Data were gathered over five years from pre-service teacher subject experienc…

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• 11 ‘The most interesting apartment in Scotland’: The History and Presentation of Mary, Queen of Scots’ Chambers at the Palace of Holyroodhouse

  Edinburgh University Press eBooks · 2024-04-25

  book-chapter1st authorCorresponding

  11 ‘The most interesting apartment in Scotland’: The History and Presentation of Mary, Queen of Scots’ Chambers at the Palace of Holyroodhouse was published in The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots on page 241.

  PublisherDOI

• Transnationalism and Modern American Women Writers : Introduction

  HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2019-06-01

  preprint1st authorCorresponding

  International audience

  Publisher

Frequent coauthors

• Matthew Winslade

  Charles Sturt University

  3 shared

• Eric J. Drinkwater

  Deakin University

  2 shared

• Linda Shields

  2 shared

• Zelma Bone

  2 shared

• Maggie Clarke

  2 shared

• Chelsea Litchfield

  Charles Sturt University

  2 shared

• Rachel Rossiter

  Charles Sturt University

  2 shared

• Anne Llewellynn

  Charles Sturt University

  2 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  Yale University

• B.A.

  University of Michigan

Awards & honors

• Beatrice Bain Research Fellow at University of California at…
• Dean's Fellow (2010 - Present)
• Society for the Study of American Women Writers, President (…
• The Faulkner Society, Vice President (2009 - 2012)

Similar researchers at Arizona State University

• Carolyn Comptonh-118
• David Sklarh-38
• Rebecca Fisherh-34