Ian Clark

Lecturer in College Writing
PhD in English Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
MPhil in Irish Writing, Trinity College Dublin
research interests:
  • Twentieth Century Irish literature
  • Twentieth Century British literature
  • Postcolonial literature
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    • College Writing Program
    • MSC 1096-153-122
    • Washington University
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    • St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
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    Ian Clark holds a PhD in English literature from Washington University and an MPhil in Irish Writing from Trinity College Dublin. His areas of interest include twentieth century Irish, British, and postcolonial literature, Gothic fiction, and fantasy. He teaches the Ampersand: Ireland and Dreams and Nightmares themes of College Writing and serves as a Senior Tutor at the Writing Center.

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    College Writing: Dreams and Nightmares

    This course is an opportunity to explore and experiment, to dwell in uncertainty and inquiry, and entertain confusion before resolution. Whether your area of interest is the psychology of dreams, monsters, memory, desire, cognition and neuroscience, or the underbelly of the American Dream, you will find room to interrogate subjects, both real and imagined, as well as texts and theories that destabilize categories, embody possibility, and threaten established order.