Dr. Ralph Clare came to Boise State University in 2011 from Stony Brook University where he earned his Ph.D. in English Literature. His dissertation was entitled "Fictions Ltd.: Representations of Corporations in Post-World War II American Fiction and Film". Dr. Clare also has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and an M.A. in English Literature, both from California State University in Long Beach.
Articles
“Family Incorporated: William Gaddis’s J R and the Embodiment of Capitalism.” (forthcoming in Studies in the Novel), Studies in the Novel (2013)
“Your Loss is Their Gain: The Corporate Body and the Corporeal Body in Richard Powers’s Gain.” (forthcoming in Critique), Critique (2013)
“The Politics of Boredom, and the Boredom of Politics in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King.” (forthcoming in winter of 2012 in Studies in the Novel), Studies in the Novel (2012)
The Two Haitis and Two Voodoos in Zora Neale Hurston's "Tell My Horse", Zora Neale Hurston Forum (2003)
Unpublished Papers
“Japan or Bust?: (Multi)National Threats and the Decline of Detroit in Ron Howard’s Gung Ho”, possible inclusion in a proposed collection "Bust Culture: Notes on the Great Recession" (2013)
Presentations
The Gender of Science, and the Science of Gender in Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle, American Literature Association (2012)
Dissertation
Fictions Ltd.: Representations of Corporations in Post-World War II American Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture (2010)
"My project explores the still emerging late-capitalist world-system through American literary, filmic, and pop cultural...