Patricia Clark

Patricia E. Clark, Ph.D., is a professor of English and African & African American Studies at the State University of New York at Oswego.

Dr. Clark recently served as Associate Dean and Interim Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Oswego. In fall 2021, she returned to her home department as faculty and director of Literary Studies in English and Creative Writing.

She teaches 20th and 21st-century African American and U.S. literature and culture. Her published and forthcoming work focuses on language, food writing, and aurality/orality in the U.S. African diaspora, specifically how gender, ethnicity, and national identities are understood through narratives about food practices and, more recently, sound. Her work has appeared in Callaloo (“Archiving Epistemologies and the Narrativity of Recipes in Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo”), Stone Canoe (“Black Soundtrack, White Movie”), and in collections published by Routledge (“Cookbooks, Cuisines, and Black Nationalisms” in Gendering Global Transformations) and the University of North Carolina Press (“Looking for Edna” in Edna Lewis: At the Table With an American Original.)