• Associate Professor

    Faculty of Arts
    Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media
    609 Fletcher Argue Building
    15 Chancellors Circle
    University of Manitoba
    Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2

    Phone: 204-474-8134
    glenn.clark@umanitoba.ca

Currently accepting graduate students - Yes

  • Master's
  • PhD

Teaching

  • ENGL 3010 - Shakespeare
  • ENGL 3030 - Christopher Marlowe: Passion, Pride, and Power in Tudor England
  • ENGL 7900 - Medieval Drama

Biography

I am a specialist in early modern English literature, with a focus on Tudor-Stuart drama. While in graduate school at the University of Chicago I taught at Roosevelt University in Chicago and since then at the University of Manitoba. My research interests include drama and the Reformation, the early modern city, social-psychological approaches to early modern drama and Shakespeare in the context of contemporary Indigenous political thought and action. I am a past graduate chair in the Department of English, Theatre, Film, & Media. I have chaired the undergraduate essay prize committee of the North American Conference on British Studies and I am a member of the editorial board of The Map of Early Modern London Project.

Education

  • PhD (English Renaissance Literature), University of Chicago, 2002
  • MA (English Literature), University of Chicago, 1991
  • BA, University of British Columbia, 1990

Research

Research interests

  • Tudor-Stuart drama and the Reformation
  • Social-psychological approaches to early-modern drama
  • The early modern city
  • Shakespeare in the context of contemporary Indigenous political thought and action

Research affiliations/groups

  • Member - Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies 
  • Member - Shakespeare Association of America
  • Member - Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
  • Member - Renaissance Society of America

Selected publications

  • "City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City", co-editor and Introduction with Judith Owens and Greg Smith. McGill-Queen’s UP, 2010.
  • “Resistance Movements: The Tempest, Resurgence, and Indigenous Performance on Turtle Island.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 9.2 (2022): 198-215.
  • “Hurried to Destruction: Reprobation in Arden of Faversham and A Woman Killed with Kindness.” Renaissance and Reformation 41.4 (2018): 109-31.
  • “A Social Influence Technique in Jonson’s The Alchemist” with Aleksandra Porada, Notes and Queries 65.2 (2018): 183-85.
  • “Tyranny, Incivility and Republicanism in The City Madam.” The Ben Jonson Journal 19.1 (2012): 65-87.
  • “The Civil Mutinies of Romeo and Juliet” in ELR 41.2 (2011): 280-300.
  • "Zeal or Vengeance?: Anger, Performance, and Ministerial Figures in Marston and Shakespeare.” Religion and Literature 42.3 (2010): 1-26.
  • “Speaking Daggers: Shakespeare’s Troubled Ministers” in Shakespeare and Religious Change, eds. Kenneth Graham and Philip Collington (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 176-95.

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