Dr. Claire Falck
Dr. Claire Falck
Dr. Claire Falck
Department Chair and Associate Professor
Biography
Claire Falck teaches Shakespeare, British Literature I, Critical Methods I and II, and courses in early modern and Renaissance literature in the English department. Dr. Falck graduated with a B.A. in English, Art History, and Visual Art from Bowdoin College, and received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. Her articles on Spenser, Donne, Herbert, and other early modern topics have appeared in The John Donne Journal, The George Herbert Journal, Studies in Philology, and SEL. Her book project, God and Genre in Early Modern Protestant Poetry, analyzes the generic innovations of religious lyric and epic poetry during the English Reformation. Dr. Falck is currently one of the co-editors of The Spenser Review, and a member of the Review’s Editorial Board.
