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Prentiss Clark is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at USD. Her book _Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Literary Companion_ is forthcoming from McFarland Publishers and she's working on a monograph titled _Measures of Intimacy: Emerson to Du Bois to Baldwin_.
U.S. literature and culture (especially nineteenth and early-twentieth century); literature and philosophy; literature and civic living; aesthetics. Recent graduate courses include "'Perception at the pitch of passion': Henry James & James Baldwin," "Writing the 'American Renaissance' from the 19th Century to Now," "Investigating the Ethical Life in Literature," and "Aesthetics." Recent undergraduate courses include "American Literature I," "Introduction to Criticism," and "Honors English."
U.S. literature (especially the long nineteenth century); literature and philosophy; literature and civic life; aesthetics; Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Henry and William James, the poetries of Whitman, Dickinson, and Wallace Stevens, and the craft of writing.