Spencer Tricker

Spencer Tricker is an Assistant Professor of English at Clark University specializing in 19th- and early 20th-century American literature with a focus on transpacific connections. His research examines cosmopolitanism's role in imperial contexts through works by writers from the U.S., Canada, the Philippines, and Hawai‘i. Current projects include a manuscript titled Imminent Communities: Liberal Cosmopolitanism and Empire in Transpacific Literature and a seminar on race beyond the Black/White binary.

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Miami (2018)
• M.A., University of Central Florida (2012)
• B.A., New York University (2009)

Research interests emphasize recentering Asian and Pacific perspectives in American literary studies, challenging Eurocentric frameworks. His published work spans Melville studies, Asian American literature, and transpacific cultural exchanges. Recent articles explore immigration discourses, Emerson's Asian engagements, and Sui Sin Far's intertextual narratives.

Awards:

• Melville Society’s Hennig Cohen Prize (2017)

Teaching includes courses on divided loyalties in literature, American literary history, and transpacific crossings. Active in academic circles through presentations at venues like the Five Colleges Consortium and C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.