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Michael Tavel Clarke is an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, specializing in U.S. literature and culture. He has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa, obtained in 2001, and also holds an M.A. in English from the same institution. His academic pursuits focus on various topics, including the U.S. Civil War, cultural studies, theories of size and scale, gender studies, and post-Marxist theory. Clarke has authored a book on American obsessions with bigness and its implications on the ideas of the body. Additionally, he has co-edited a collection on scale in literature and culture. His published articles span subjects from naturalism and modernism to U.S. film and imperialism to Indigenous and African-American literature. He offers graduate courses in U.S. literature and has supervised numerous doctoral and master’s students. His teaching excellence has been recognized with awards and nominations, including those from the University of Iowa and the University of Calgary.
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