Background

Suzanne Clark was born in the United States, the daughter of Robert Donald Clark.

Education

Suzanne Clark attended the University of Oregon, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French Language and Literature in 1991 and in 1965, she earned a Master of Arts degree in French Language and Literature. She also studied at the University of California - Irvine from 1977 to 1980, where she obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English and Comparative Literature.

Career

Professor Clark has spent over 30 years teaching throughout the Oregon university system. From 1985 to 1986, she was an assistant professor at Western Washington University, where she taught courses in English literature, English Education, and Feminist literature. In 1986, she accepted the post of an associate professor at Oregon State University and taught courses in English literature, writing, and pedagogy.

In 1990, Suzanne was promoted to a full professor. In her current role as professor emerita, Clark teaches courses in the Clark Honors College, as well as in the departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.

Clark's involvement in the university over the years has seen her serve as Co-President of the University Senate, Chair the President's Task Force on Athletics, and spearhead a new study abroad program in Angers, France.

Clark is the author of two books, Sentimental Modernism: Women Writers and the Revolution of the Word, that was written in 1991 and Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West in 2000.

Increasingly, professor Clark finds herself writing about and working to produce films. She has acted as Producer for a number of filmed interviews and for three documentary films.

Achievements

• Suzanne Clark is particularly known as a highly acclaimed educator, as well as a prolific author of books. Her research and writing have helped to establish important programs in the Humanities at Oregon and to lead them toward new projects which emphasize community service, outreach, and activism.

Works

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  • Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West

    (Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the ...)

    2000
  • Sentimental Modernism: Women Writers and the Revolution of the Word 1991

Connections

Father:

Robert Donald Clark

Robert Donald Clark was president of the University of Oregon from 1969 to 1975, during the Vietnam war and a time of course of student protests and profound changes in Oregon and U.S. society.