Dr. Jeffrey Clapp focuses on literature in English, and iswriting a book aboutcontemporary literature in the United States. His previous writing has appeared or will appear in College Literature,Critique, Life Writing, Partial Answers,Post45, Textual Practice, Texas Studies in Literature and Language,and elsewhere. He is the co-editor of a collection of essays entitledSecurity and Hospitality in Literature and Culture.

Dr. Clapp is director of the large-scale community reading project我城我書/One City One Book Hong Kongand general editor of Xi Xi City, a digital humanities project that celebrates the work of Hong Kong's most delightful writer.

Dr. Clapp has beenexploring the capacities and affordances of social annotation technologies for tertiary pedagogy. A first set of resultshas appeared in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education.

His office is B3-1/F-33.

-Twentieth and twenty-first century literature in English

-Literature in the United States

-Autobiography, autofiction, life-writing, memoir

-Poetry and poetics

-Cultural studies, film studies, media studies

-Digital humanities

-Social annotation technology

Hong Kong Education Bureau Curriculum Development Council / Examinations and Assessment Authority, Committee on Literature in English, 2019-2021.