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Dr. Jeffrey Clapp focuses on literature in English, and is writing a book about contemporary literature in the United States. His previous writing has appeared or will appear in College Literature, Contemporary 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 entitled Security 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 Kong and general editor of Xi Xi City, a digital humanities project that celebrates the work of Hong Kong's most delightful writer.
Dr. Clapp has been exploring the capacities and affordances of social annotation technologies for tertiary pedagogy. A first set of results has appeared in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education.
His office is B3-1/F-33.
Research interests
-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
External Appointments
Hong Kong Education Bureau Curriculum Development Council / Examinations and Assessment Authority, Committee on Literature in English, 2019-2021.
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Projects
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Whitman on the Grid: Surveillance, Democracy, and the Autobiographical Moment in Contemporary American Literature
01/01/17 → 31/12/18
Project: Research project
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Review of the book Lindsay Thomas, Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11
CLAPP, J. M., 2022, In: American Literary History. 34, 4, p. 1718-1721Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Jeff VanderMeer, or the novel trapped in the open world
CLAPP, J. M., 2021, In: Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 62, 4, p. 414-427Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
“Something fruitful for all of us”: Social annotation as a signature pedagogy for literature education
CLAPP, J. M., DECOURSEY, M. W., LEE, S. W. S. & LI, K., 01 Jul 2021, In: Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. 20, 3, p. 295-319Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
10 Citations (Scopus) -
Social annotation as formative assessment
CLAPP, J. M., 19 Jun 2020Research output: Other contribution › Other contributions
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Undisguised alter ego: Mary McCarthy's autofictional career
CLAPP, J. M., 2020, In: Life Writing. 17, 1, p. 27-43Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
Prizes
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Tony Hilfer Prize for Best Essay
CLAPP, Jeffrey Michael (Recipient), 22 Jan 2019
Prize: Prizes / Awards