About
Amy Clark received her Ph.D. in English and Medieval Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2020, and an M.A. in Creative Writing (also from UC Berkeley) in 2018. Her first book project, “Familiar Distances: Beating the Bounds of Early English Identity,” argues that early English texts write selfhood as dynamic, relational, and unstable—and the formal solution to this instability, in genres ranging from charter bounds to riddles to religious poetry, is to reiterate the key relationships that define an individual. She is also interested in digital pedagogies, having taught digital methods courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. At Michigan, she will begin a second project on the oft-neglected writings of early medieval English immigrants, missionaries, and travelers.
