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Cliff Mak is an Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY. His research and teaching intersect 20th-century literature with evolutionary theory, modernism, media studies, cultural studies, affect theory, gender and sexuality studies, critical animal studies, and the history of cybernetics. He is currently completing a book on modernist instinct and stylistic virtuosity.
- Twentieth-century literature
- Evolutionary theory
- Modernism
- Media and animation studies
- Affect theory
- Critical animal studies
- History of cybernetics
Cliff Mak’s recent publications explore topics such as queer modernism, pandemic epistemology, weak theory, and the intersection of media studies with animal representation. His work appears in journals like English Literary History, Modernism/modernity, and Modernist Cultures. He actively contributes to academic discourse through invited symposium responses and interdisciplinary handbooks.
Cliff Mak’s research engages with the dialectics of agency, compulsion, and universalism in modernist and postmodernist frameworks. His forthcoming book project further extends this analysis through a lens of stylistic virtuosity and instinctual logic.
