Joseph Clarke

Joseph Clarke received his BA from Fordham University and his MA and PhD from Rutgers University, where he completed a dissertation on modernism and Caribbean literature entitled An Acre of Ground: Figuring Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction. A portion of the dissertation is to be published as "Caribbean Africanism and the Postcolonial Social Contract." He confesses to a peculiar fondness for the work of Trinidadian novelist V. S. Naipaul. Naipaul's work has stimulated an on-going research interest in the relationship between suffering, literature, and criticism in postcolonial studies. His research interests include theorizing modernities within globalization, Africana Discourse, and Anglophone African Literature's relationship to ethnophilosophy and Sage philosophy.

Courses Taught

fall 2005

ENGL 071.401 Literature of Africa and the African Diaspora canceled

ENGL 260.401 Caribbean Women Writers canceled

spring 2004

ENGL 100.401 Narrative and Social Change

ENGL 801.301 Pedagogy

fall 2003

ENGL 093.401 Introduction to Anglophone Caribbean Literature

ENGL 293.401 Contemporary Caribbean Women Writers

spring 2003

ENGL 393.401 Topics in Literature and Society

ENGL 572.401 Africa & the African Diaspora

fall 2002

ENGL 093.401 Introduction to Caribbean Literature

ENGL 260.401 Introduction to Post Colonial Studies

ENGL 299.308 British Post-Colonialism

spring 2002

ENGL 280.401 African Literature: Texts and Contexts

ENGL 293.402 Caribbean Literature: Caribbean Women Writers

fall 2001

ENGL 280.401 Gender in African Fiction

ENGL 293.402 The Function of Literature in an Age of Global Capitalism

spring 2001

ENGL 093.401 Tradition and Modernity in the Literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora

ENGL 260.401 Twentieth Century Caribbean Women Writers

fall 2000

ENGL 093.401 The Politics of Resistance in Carribbean Literature

ENGL 280.401 Like Ghosts with Open Eyes:Gender in African Fiction