Micael Clarke
Professor Emerita
- Office Location: Crown Center 407
- Phone Number: 773.508.2797
- E-mail: mclarke@luc.edu
Offices Held
- Director, Undergraduate Programs in English, Loyola University Chicago, 2005-09
- Director, Center for Faith and Mission, Loyola University Chicago, 2002-04
- Vice President, President, Midwest Victorian Studies Association, 2001-05
- Director of Writing Programs, Loyola University Chicago, 1994-1999
Degrees
- BA & MA, University of Illinois at Chicago
- PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Program Areas
- Victorian Novel
- Gender Studies
- Feminist Theory
- Theory of the Novel
Research Interests
- Religion and Literature
- Secularism
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Charlotte and Emily Brontë
Selected Publications
Books:
- Thackeray and Women. Northern Illinois University Press, 1995.
- In Progress: Emily Brontë and Mysticism.
Articles:
- [Forthcoming] “Willie Collins’s Moonstone, and the Emergence of a Global Secular Modernity,” Religion and Literature, vol. 49, no. 2, Fall 2018, Notre Dame University.
- “Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Mid-Victorian Anti-Catholicism, and the turn to Secularism.” ELH, vol. 78, 2011, pp. 967-989.
- “Emily Brontë’s ‘No Coward Soul’ and the Need for a Religious Literary Criticism.” Victorians Institute Journal, vol. 37, 2009, pp. 195-223.
- “Celluloid Satire, or the Moviemaker as Moralist: Mira Nair’s Adaptation of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.” In In/Fidelity: Essays on Film Adaptation. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, pp. 38-59.
- “Teaching Hopkins Without Embarrassment: Catholic Identity and Intellectual Integrity.” America, vol. 184, May 21, 2001, pp. 6-11.
- “Brontë's Jane Eyre and the Grimms' Cinderella: Fairy Tale as Feminist Allegory." Studies in English Literature, vol. 40, Autumn 2000, pp. 695-710.
