Cameron Clark
In 2022-2023, Cameron Clark will be a sixth-year, joint-Ph.D. candidate in Vanderbilt's Departments of English and Comparative Media Analysis & Practice (CMAP).
His article, "Grief, Ecocritical Negativity, and the Queer Anti-Pastoral," was awarded the 2019 Chris Holmlund Society for Cinema and Media Studies Queer and Trans Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize. It was subsequently published in the peer-reviewed journal, New Review of Film and Television Studies. He is currently co-editing a special journal issue of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities with E.L. McCallum on negativity in queer and trans ecologies and environmentalisms.
In addition to SCMS, Cameron has presented conference papers at the American Studies Association, the National Women's Studies Association, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, and the ICI Biennial Symposium on the Environment, the Anthropocene, and the African Diaspora.
Specialization(s)
- 20th- and 21st-Century Queer and Trans Studies, Literatures, and Cinemas
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Post-45 Global Film History
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Environmental Humanities and Anthropocene Studies
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Black Feminist Theory
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De/coloniality and Black Studies
Representative publications
“Nature Bites Back: The Anti-Pastoral Thesis in Queer and Trans Studies,” Special issue of Resilience: A Journal of Environmental Humanities, co-edited with E.L. McCallum. Forthcoming: co-written introduction and individually written article.
“Grief, Ecocritical Negativity, and the Queer Anti-Pastoral,” New Review of Film and Television Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, Mar. 2019, pp. 211-235. Winner of the Chris Holmlund SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize.
Awards
Chris Holmlund SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize
Mellon Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities
Robert Ransom Myers Graduate Student Research Fund