Prentiss Clark (website in progress....)
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of South Dakota

  In progress​

• Jimmy & Waldo: A Play

​

Books

• Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Companion (McFarland 2022)

​

Solicited Essays

• “‘Allied to all’: Emerson and Ethics Beyond Self-Reliance.” The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Michael Jonik, Cambridge UP, 2026.

• “‘The arch abolitionist’: Emerson, Love, and Social Justice.”  The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Christopher Hanlon, Oxford UP, 2024.

 

Selected Articles

• “‘intricate, overlapped, interweaved, and endless’: Emerson, Henry James, and the Nature of Moral Life.” Henry James Review, vol. 42, no. 3, Fall 2021, pp. 265-271.

• “Society and Solitude for an ‘everlasting Now.” Emerson Society Papers, vol. 31, no.1, Spring 2020, pp.1, 5-6. 

• “What ‘no chart can tell us’: Ordinary Intimacies in Emerson, Du Bois, and Baldwin.” James Baldwin Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 2019, pp. 23-47.

• “‘Pulse for pulse in harmony with the universal whole’: Hearing Self-Reliance Anew,” Nineteenth-Century Literature, vol. 69, no, 3, December 2014, pp. 319-341.   

​