作者: Clark Davis

Clark Davis is Professor of English in the Department of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. He has served as chair of the department for six years, from 2009-2012 and 2015-2018. He is the author of After the Whale: Melville in the Wake of Moby-Dick (Alabama UP, 1995), Hawthorne”s Shyness: Ethics, Politics, and the Question of Engagement (Johns Hopkins UP, 2005), and It Starts with Trouble: William Goyen and the Life of Writing (U of Texas Press, 2015), which was selected as a Publishers Weekly Best Non-Fiction Title for 2015. His essays have appeared or are forthcoming in a variety of journals, including Nineteenth Century Literature, Arizona Quarterly, The New England Quarterly, The Southern Review, Raritan, Common Knowledge, ESQ, ATQ, Southwestern American Literature, Studies in American Fiction, and The Southwest Review.