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Personal profile
Biography
Heather Clark joined the University of Huddersfield as Professor of Contemporary Poetry in 2019. She is the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, which will be published in October 2020 by Alfred A. Knopf in the US, and Jonathan Cape in the UK; The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (Oxford UP, 2011), which was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972 (Oxford UP, 2006), which won both the Robert Rhodes and Donald Murphy Prizes from the American Conference for Irish Studies. Her reviews and essays have appeared in the Harvard Review, the Times Literary Supplement, PN Review and elsewhere.
Heather received a 2017-18 Public Scholar Fellowship and a 2006-07 Research Fellowship from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as a 2016-17 Biography Fellowship from the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York, for her work on Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. She has recently been a Visiting U.S. Fellow at the Eccles Center for American Studies at the British Library and a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Center for Life-Writing. In 2018 she appeared in a BBC documentary on Sylvia Plath, Life Inside the Bell Jar, for which she was also the scholarly consultant. Her research interests include postwar British, Irish and American poetry and literary biography. She welcomes MA and PhD proposals in these areas.
Qualifications:
DPhil in English Literature, University of Oxford, 2002
MSt in English Literature, University of Oxford, 1999
MPhil in Anglo-Irish Literature, Trinity College Dublin, 1997
BA in English and American Language and Literature, Harvard University, magna cum laude, 1996
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Research Output
Review of The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: by Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell and their Circle, edited by Saskia Hamilton
Clark, H., 19 May 2020, Harvard Review 1 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review
Open Access
P(l)athography: Plath and Her Biographers
Clark, H., 2019, Sylvia Plath in Context. Brain, T. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 360-370 11 p. (Literature in Context).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Sylvia Plath: The Light of the Mind: A biography of Sylvia Plath
Clark, H., 6 Jan 2019, (Accepted/In press) New York: Alfred A. Knopf.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Sylvia Plath's Ninth Kingdom
Clark, H., 11 Apr 2019, Harvard Review.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review
Open Access
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The Belfast Group
Clark, H., Jan 2019, (Accepted/In press) Seamus Heaney in Context. Higgins, G. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Activities
- 2 Visiting an external academic institution
City University of New York
Heather Clark (Visiting researcher)
2017 → 2019
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Woflson College, Oxford
Heather Clark (Visiting researcher)
2016 → 2017
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
Press / Media
The Bloomsbury Fringe: Review of The Friendly Young Ladies by Mary Renault
3/03/06
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
Maid of the Hamptons: Review of Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott
23/05/03
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
Empire on their Doorstep: Review of The White Family by Maggie Gee
3/05/02
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
Going Nowhere Fast: Review of Heaven Forbid by Christopher Hope
15/03/02
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other