Liz Clarke

Associate Professor

PhD – Wilfrid Laurier University
MA – York University
BA – Wilfrid Laurier University

Office: SBH 332a
905-688-5550 x6705
lclarke@brocku.ca

Liz Clarke (PhD Wilfrid Laurier University) teaches classes in popular narrative, serial storytelling, labour and film (production guilds and unions), film history, film theory, film and TV genres, and gender film and TV. Her past book project was on women in war films from 1908 to 1918. She also researches women writers in film and television from the silent period to contemporary female show-runners. She is currently researching the Directors Guild of Canada.

Research Interests

I am happy to supervise projects in the following areas:

  • the war film
  • silent film
  • screenwriting history (particularly women screenwriters) and women in film and television production
  • seriality
  • television and streaming services

Publications and collections

  • Forthcoming: Clarke, L and M. Johnson, eds. Companion to Silent Film. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • Clarke, L. (2022), The American Girl Goes to War: Women and National Identity in US Film, 1908-1918. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • Clarke, L. (2021), “Doing Her Bit: Women, Propaganda, and World War I,” Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited, eds. Philippa Gates and Katharine Spring, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.
  • Clarke, L. (2019), ”Vamps and Virgins: The Women of 1920s Hollywood War Romances,” New Perspectives on the War Film, eds. Clémentine Thomas, Janis Goldie, and Karen Ritzenhoff, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave-MacMillan.
  • Clarke, L. (2018), “A Band of Adventurers: Kalem’s Gauntier-Olcott Film Unit in Egypt,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 38:4: 695-710.

Teaching areas

  • Popular Narrative/Seriality
  • Film Theory and Film History
  • Popular Film and Hollywood History
  • Gender and Film/TV
  • TV Genres