Dr. Clare Clarke

Associate Professor, English

Biography

Research and Teaching Interests I joined the School of English at Trinity as an Assistant Professor in 19th-Century Literature in 2014, having previously taught at Queen's University Belfast and having held an IRC Post-Doctoral research fellowship at Trinity in 2012-2013. Research I have two major research interests: late-nineteenth century popular fiction and crime and detective fiction from the Victorian period to the present day. I have published widely on Victorian crime fiction in journals such as Victorian Periodicals Review, Victorian Literature and Culture, and CLUES: A Journal of Detection. My first monograph Late-Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock (Palgrave Macmillan: 2014) was the winner of the HRF Keating Award for best non-fiction crime book of the year. My second monograph, British Detective Fiction 1891-1901: The Successors to Sherlock Holmes was published by Palgrave in July 2020. I am currently working on three projects: a new monograph project, which is a cultural history of private detection in Britain; a new edition of The Return of Sherlock Holmes for Edinburgh University Press; The Cambridge Companion to True Crime, co-edited with my colleague Prof Bernice M. Murphy. Teaching Much of my teaching involves nineteenth-century popular literature and/or crime fiction. My Sophister Option courses are 'Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes', 'The Art of Murder', and `Reading Like a Victorian: The Woman in White in instalments. At Fresher level, I am convenor of 'British Romantic Literature' and teach on 'Pulp', 'Victorian Literature,' 'US American Identities', `Cultures of Retelling, and the Trinity Elective module 'Travel and Literature. At Postgraduate level, I am the Co-Director, with Professor Darryl Jones, of the MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literary Studies. I convene the core module 'Perspectives in Modern and Contemporary Literature.' On the MPhil I also offer the option module 'Shedunnit: Women and Crime from the 19th to the 21st century.' PhD and Postdoctoral Supervision I welcome enquiries about doctoral and postdoctoral research on the following topics: crime fiction, true crime, Victorian periodical and newspaper culture, fin de siècle literature, popular genres, professional authorship. I would especially warmly welcome proposals for projects dealing with late Victorian popular fiction, particularly crime or detective fiction. For a full list of my publications please see: https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=clarkc11 Contact Dr Clare Clarke School of English Arts Building Room 4004 Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland Email: clare.clarke@tcd.ie

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Clare Clarke, Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 1 - 221ppBook, 2014
Clare Clarke, British Detective Fiction 1893-1900: The Successors to Sherlock Holmes., Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, xii - 166ppBook, 2020
Clare Clarke, "Something for the 'Silly Season': policing and the press in Israel Zangwill's The Big Bow Mystery.", Victorian Periodicals Review , 48, (1), 2015, p121 - 137Journal Article, 2015, TARA - Full Text
Clare Clarke, Imperial Rogues: reverse colonization fears in Pearson's Magazine 1897, Guy Boothby's A Prince of Swindlers, and late-Victorian detective fiction., Victorian Literature and Culture , 41, (3), 2013, p527 - 545Journal Article, 2013
Clare Clarke, Horace Dorrington, criminal detective: investigating the re-emergence of the rogue in Arthur Morrison's The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897)., CLUES: A Journal of Detection, 28, (2), 2010, p7 - 18Journal Article, 2010, TARA - Full Text
Professionalism and the Cultural Politics of Work in the Sherlock Holmes stories. in, editor(s)Kate MacDonald , The Masculine Middlebrow 1880-1940, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp73 - 90, [Clare Clarke]Book Chapter, 2011
"Holmes, Doyle, and Victorian Publishing." in, editor(s)Janice Allan and Christopher Pittard , The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp2 - 21, [Clare Clarke]Book Chapter, 2019
Charlotte Riddell. in, editor(s)Bernice M Murphy and Elizabeth McCarthy, eds , Lost Souls, McFarland, 2016, [Clare Clarke]Book Chapter, 2016
"Jo Nesbo: Murder in the Folkhemmet. in, editor(s)Bernice M Murphy and Stephen Matterson , Twenty-First Century Popular Fiction. , Edinburgh, EUP, 2018, [clare clarke]Book Chapter, 2018
LT Meade, Sisters of Sherlock, and the Strand Magazine in, editor(s)Alexis Easley, Clare Gill, and Beth Rodgers, eds , The Edinburgh History of Victorian Women and Print Media, 1830-1900, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, pp1-20 , [Clare Clarke]Book Chapter, 2019
Fergus Hume in, editor(s)Kevin Morrison , Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction, Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2018, [Clare Clarke]Book Chapter, 2018
Detective Fiction, Lesa Scholl, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women Writers, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, [Clare Clarke]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2019
CLUES: A Journal of Detection, 39, 1, (2021), 1 - 116p, Clare Clarke, Eva Burke, [Co-editor]Journal, 2021
Clare Clarke, Review of Samuel Saunders' The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction, Review of The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction, by Samuel Saunders , CLUES: A Journal of Detection, 40, (2), 2022, p131-132Review, 2022
Clare Clarke, Private Inquiries and Secret Watchings: A Cultural History of the Victorian Detective, 2027Book, 2027
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Clare Clarke, Edinburgh University Press, (Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle), Edinburgh:, Edinburgh University Press, 1905, -Critical Edition (Book), 1905

Clare Clarke, "Forget Sherlock Holmes and try these other Victorian detectives." The Independent, 2022, -Miscellaneous
Clare Clarke, Beyond Sherlock Holmes: five Victorian detective stories you must read." The Conversation., 2021, -Miscellaneous
Clare Clarke, Matthew Sweet, Shrabani Basu, Invited panellists., The Real World of Arthur Conan Doyle: British Library Histfest, 2021Invited Talk
Clare Clarke, 'Invited Expert Guest on RTE Arena: Celebrating Patricia Highsmith at 100', 2021, -Broadcast
Clare Clarke, Move over Sherlock: The Radical Edge to Enola Holmes (Netflix)." Independent.ie , The Independent , 2021Review Article
Clare Clarke, "It's Alive: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at 200" Irish Times , 2018, -Miscellaneous
Clare Clarke , "Our Culture is Obsessed with Beautiful Dead Girls." Irish Times 11 June 2018., 2018, -Miscellaneous
Clarke, Clare, and Brian Cliff. , "Crime Pays, from academia to bestseller lists." Irish Times 27 March 2017., 2017, -Miscellaneous
Clare Clarke , "Detective Fever: why we are addicted to Sherlock Holmes and Victorian Crime." Irish Times 6 January 2016., 2016, -Miscellaneous
Clare Clarke, "A shrine of pilgrimage": dark tourism in late-Victorian London, crime reporting, and The Big Bow Mystery., City, Space, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century Performance, University of Warwick (hosted in Venice, Italy), May 2018, 2018Oral Presentation
Clare Clarke, "Science at her finger ends": science, crime, and gender in L.T. Meade's The Brother hood of the Seven Kings (1899) and The Strand Magazine. , Messengers from the Stars - Episode IV, Science Fiction and Fantasy, University of Lisbon. , Nov 2016, 2016Oral Presentation
Clare Clarke, "Lady Detectives and lady authors: Bestselling women's crime stories of the fin de siècle." , "Queens of Crime." , Institute of English Studies, University of London., June 2014, 2014Oral Presentation
Clare Clarke, "The most popular book of modern times": Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886). , "Lesser Victorians." , Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. , Sept 2013, 2013Conference Paper
Clare Clarke, "A topsy-turvy world": the global and the local in the bestselling crime novel of the nineteenth century. , "The Global and the Local." BAVS/NAVSA/AVSA. , University of Ca Foscari, Venice., June 2013, 2013Oral Presentation
Clare Clarke, "The pleasures and pitfalls of work in the Sherlock Holmes stories and The Strand Magazine." , "Work and Leisure" RSVP 43rd Annual Conference, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. , July 2011, 2011Conference Paper
Clare Clarke, "Detecting the nation: anxieties of empire in late-Victorian detective fiction." , "States of Crime: The State in Crime Fiction." , June 2011, 2011, 2011Conference Paper
Clare Clarke, "The very last person you'd dream of suspecting": criminal detectives in 1890s magazine fiction. , "Capital Crimes." , Crime Research Network, Cardiff University., October 2009, 2009Conference Paper
Clare Clarke, "L'homme C'est Rien, L'oeuvre C'est Tout": the case of the unindustrious professional in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. , "The Masculine Middlebrow.", Inst. of English Studies, University of London., March 2009, 2009Conference Paper
Clare Clarke, "Fresher, crisper, more workmanlike": professional writing and criminal professionals in the Sherlock Holmes short stories. , "Century's End: Re-evaluating Literature, Art and Culture at the Fin de Siècle." , Queen's University Belfast, SEpt 2008, 2008Conference Paper
Clare Clarke, 'A Shrine of Pilgrimage: Dark Tourism in Late Victorian Newspapers' Ripper Reportage'., Edge Hill University EHU19's Seminar Series (2022), EDge Hill University (online), 9 May 2022, 2022, Edge Hill UniversityInvited Talk
Clare Clarke, Bah Humbug! The weird and wonderful world of Victorian Christmas cards, Bah Humbug! The weird and wonderful world of Victorian Christmas cards, Trinity Long Room Hub (online), Dec 2021, 2021, Trinity Long Room HubInvited Talk
Clare Clarke, Faculty in Focus with Dr Clare Clarke. Chair: Prof Eve Patten., aculty in Focus with Dr Clare Clarke. , Trinity Long Room Hub (online), Nov 2020, 2020, Trinity Long Room HubInvited Talk
Clare Clarke, 'Conan Doyle and Cities', 'Arthur Conan Doyle in Edinburgh', Edinburgh Napier University, 24-25 September, 2020, Edinburgh Conan Doyle NetworkInvited Talk
Clare Clarke, Conan Doyle and London, Conan Doyle and London, The Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study University of London (online), 15 Nov , 2019, The Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study University of LondonInvited Talk
Clare Clarke, Bah Humbug!: Christmas and Victorian print culture, A Festive Research Showcase, Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, 4 Dec, 2019, Office of the Dean of Research, TCDInvited Talk
Clare Clarke, A Shrine of Pilgrimage: Dark Tourism in late-Victorian crime writing, newspapers, and Ripper reportage, North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar, Manchester Metropolitan University (online), 15 July, 2020, School of English, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityInvited Talk
Clare Clarke, Dark Tourism in late-Victorian London, crime reporting, and Israel Zangwill's The Big Bow Mystery (1891). , Work/Leisure, Duty/Pleasure: Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Annual Conference, University of Brighton, UK, 25 July 2019, 2019Oral Presentation
Clare Clarke, 'Was Sherlock Irish? ', Newstalk , Newstalk, 2018, -Broadcast

Research Expertise

Keywords

Languages and literature, History, Heritage and Archaeology,

Recognition

IRC New Foundations Award 2019
Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Award 2014
British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) Event Endorsement grant 2019
2017-2020 Principal Investigator for Eva Burke, IRC Doctoral Scholarship, PI for Doctoral Funding, 36 months (2017-2020) 2017
IRCHSS Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2012
Queen's University Belfast Special Research Scholarship, doctoral funding (fees and maintenance) 2008-2010
TCD Provost's Project Award 2020
TCD Arts and Social Sciences Benefaction Fund 2016
HRF Keating Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book 2015
TCD Arts and Social Sciences Benefaction Fund 2015

Membership of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals present
Executive Board member of RSVP (Research Society for Victorian Periodicals) 2022
Membership of the Irish Network for Nineteenth-Century Studies (Association Rep for Trinity College Dublin) present
Membership of the British Association for Victorian Studies present

Invited member of judging committee, Robert and Vineta Colby Book Prize, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals 2018
Journal reviewer: Journal of Victorian Culture; Victorian Literature and Culture; CLUES; Victorian Periodicals Review 2018-2022