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Tim Clarke

Assistant Professor

| Early Modern Studies, Foundation Year Program

| Assistant Professor, Faculty Member

Tim Clarke Tim Clarke
tim.clarke@ukings.ca 902-422-1271 ext. 213

BA (Memorial), MA (Queen’s), PhD (University of Ottawa)

Dr. Tim Clarke is an assistant professor in the Foundation Year Program. He received a BA in English and Historical Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2011, an MA in English at Queen’s University in 2012, and a PhD in English at the University of Ottawa in 2018, where his doctoral research explored the tangled legacies of Spinoza’s philosophy among American literary writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. His research focuses on encounters between literature and philosophy, especially literary modernisms and philosophical reflections on vitalism, death, and affect.

Dr. Clarke’s current project, tentatively titled Morbid Vitalism: Life and Decadence in Modernist Literature, conceives of literary modernism as the site of a counter-intuitive synthesis of alternately vitalist and death-oriented thought that he traces in part to modernism’s inheritance and development of the decadent tradition. Dr. Clarke has recently published on Spinozan affect theory, failure, and the fear of death in Djuna Barnes’s novel Nightwood. He is also the co-translator of numerous texts by the Brazilian geographer Milton Santos.

Selected Publications

  • Morbid Vitalism: Death, Decadence, and Spinozism in Barnes’s Nightwood. Twentieth-Century Literature, forthcoming (June, 2021).
  • Review of Italian Futurism and the Machine, by Katia Pizzi. The Modernist Review, modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2019/09/30/book-review-italian-futurism-and-the-machine/ (September, 2019).
  • “Introducing Milton Santos: A Voice from the Global South.” Toward an Other Globalization: From the Single Thought to Universal Conscience, edited by Tim Clarke and Lucas Melgaço, Springer, pp. xi-xvii (2017, co-written with Lucas Melgaço).
  • Translation of “The Active Role of Geography: A Manifesto.” By Milton Santos, et al., Antipode, vol. 49, no. 4 (2017, co-translated with Lucas Melgaço).
  • Translation of Toward an Other Globalization: From the Single Thought to Universal Conscience. By Milton Santos, Springer (2017, co-translated and co-edited with Lucas Melgaço).
  • Translation of “The Return of the Territory.” Milton Santos: A Pioneer in Critical Geography from the Global South, edited by Lucas Melgaço and Carolyn Prouse, Springer, 25-31 (2017, co-translated with Lucas Melgaço and Carolyn Prouse).

Research Interests

Literary modernisms, 19th- and 20th-century American literature, decadence, vitalism, affect, literary and philosophical reflections on death, continental philosophy

Current Projects

Dr. Clarke is presently researching the logic of decadence in nineteenth-century American literature and the entanglements of decadence and vitalist thought in literary modernism.


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Contemporary Studies

Reflections on Death

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Tim Clarke
CTMP2330.03
Fall, 2023/24
KTS Lecture Hall
TR 1435-1525
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Early Modern Studies
Contemporary Studies

Spinozisms: From Early Modernity to the Contemporary World

Instructor
Tim Clarke
EMSP3216.03 / CTMP3316.03
Fall, 2022/23
Seminar 7
MW 1435-1555
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