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Danielle Clarke is a Full Professor at the School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin (UCD). She has been a central academic figure at UCD since 1994, progressing through the ranks from Lecturer to Full Professor in 2018. She previously held teaching positions at multiple Oxford colleges, including St. Edmund Hall, Wadham, Exeter, and Hertford Colleges.
- BA, Oxford University
- DPhil, Oxford University
Her research centers on early modern women’s writing (1500–1700), with a focus on gender, language, rhetoric, textual criticism, and translation. She explores how women engaged with literary culture, constructed identity, and navigated patriarchal structures through writing. Her work often examines life writing, religious texts, and domestic manuscripts such as recipe books.
Her recent publications, including articles from 2022 to 2025, reflect a sustained engagement with early modern women’s textual production, editorial practices, and the construction of literary canons. Themes include the re-evaluation of canonical boundaries, the materiality of texts, digital editing, and the gendered dynamics of authorship. Her scholarship frequently intersects with digital humanities, book history, and interdisciplinary cultural studies.
Professor Clarke has received several honors and grants, including:
- Irish Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship
- President’s Research Grant, UCD
- Huguenot Scholarship, Institute of Historical Research
- Major State Scholarship, British Academy
- Gateway Senior Scholarship, St. Hugh's College, Oxford
- Violet Vaughan Morgan Memorial Prize
- Jubilee Scholarship, St. Hugh's College, Oxford
She has secured research funding such as the Irish Research Council grant for Women, Language and Textual Culture, 1500–1700. She mentors postgraduate students and coordinates key modules including Seventeenth-Century Women, Dissertation, and Life Writing: Text and Self. She has served on numerous university committees, including the UCD Academic Council, Research and Innovation Board, and Teaching and Learning Committee, reflecting her leadership in academic governance. She is currently working on a monograph on Gender and Cultural Reproduction 1500–1700, editing Lady Anne Southwell’s poetry, and co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540–1700.
She is actively involved in research, teaching, and scholarly collaboration, with no indication of retirement or former status.
