Courses Taught
- Europe in the Nineteenth Century
- Europe in the Twentieth Century
- Contemporary European History
- European Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century
- European Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century
- Modern German History
- Germany in the Twentieth Century
- Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Nazism
- Nazi Germany
- Italian Fascism and German Nazism
- Intellectuals and Society in the Twentieth Century
- Culture and Catastrophe in Twentieth Century Europe
- Revolutionaries and Romantics
- Twentieth-Century European History through Film
- The Philosophy of History and Global History through Film
Research Interests
An intellectual/cultural historian of modern Europe, Clark has published articles and book chapters on German and Italian cultural life in the post-World War II period. His first book, Beyond Catastrophe: German Intellectuals and Cultural Renewal after World War II, 1945-1955 (2006) was published by Rowman & Littlefield. Recent publications include “Brecht in the German Democratic Republic,” in Bertolt Brecht in Context(Cambridge University Press, 2021), and “Wymiana kulturowa oraz filozoficzne ziarna sprzeciwu politycznego w Niemieckiej Republice Demokratycznej i Polsce w 1956” in Zeszyty Chorzowskie (Volume 18, 2019).
Professional Interests
Dr. Clark has been a fellow in summer seminars and institutes sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. A member of the German Studies Association, he has served as a panelist, commentator, and chair at its annual meeting. Clark also reviews manuscripts and articles for several presses and journals.