Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Ben Clarke

Associate Professor, Department of English

Email: b_clarke@uncg.edu
Phone: 336.334.3967
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Appointed through Spring 2025

Ben Clarke specializes in British literature after 1900 and critical theory. He has particular interests in the literature of the nineteen-thirties, working-class writing and cultural studies. He is the author of Orwell in Context: Communities, Myths, Values (Palgrave, 2007), and co-author, with Michael Bailey and John K. Walton, of Understanding Richard Hoggart (Blackwell, 2012). He has published on authors including Edward Upward, Virginia Woolf, and H. G. Wells, and on subjects such as public houses, Englishness, the representation of mining communities, the idea of the public intellectual, and Western anthropological accounts of Taiwan. Ben is currently co-writing a new study of Richard Hoggart with Sue Owen and researching a monograph on political and aesthetic experimentation in interwar British literature. He is also working on a series of articles on working-class literature and culture. He has a particular interest in working-class masculinities and the ways in which these are used in political movements and discourses.