Brittany Clark
Lecturer
Contact
Department of English
Email: brc5@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D., American Studies, Pennsylvania State University (2021); M.A., Humanities, Pennsylvania State University (2015); B.A., English, Western Michigan University (2008)
Courses
ENGL 1030: Composition and Rhetoric; ENGL 2150: 20th and 21st Century Literature; ENGL 2140: American Literature
Research Interests
Working-Class Studies, Popular Media, Personal Narratives
Brittany Clark is a Lecturer at Clemson University where she teaches English Composition and Rhetoric, 20th and 21st Century Literature, and American Literature. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Pennsylvania State University in 2020. Her major areas of research include the intersection of working-class studies, popular culture, and personal narratives (both fiction and non-fiction). Her book Media Representations of Retail Work in America was published in 2023 by Lexington Books and examines how representations of retail workers in popular culture have shaped cultural perceptions about the job and who does it. Themes for her literature courses in the past have included: consumer culture, the suburbs in literature, autofiction, and speculative fiction.
Selected Professional Works
Books (Published)
Clark, Brittany.Retail Work in American Popular Culture. Lexington Books, Jan. 2023. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/media-representations-of-retail-work-in-america-9781666906387/
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
Bryan, Peter and Brittany Clark, “#NotMyGhostbusters: Adaptation, Response, and Fan Entitlement in 2016’s Ghostbusters,” The Journal of American Culture, vol. 42, no. 2, 27 June 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13067
“I was a Retail Salesperson: Memoirs About Working in Retail,” Journal of Working-Class Studiesvol. 3, no. 1, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v3i1
