Robert Clark
Director, Writing Center and Assistant Professor
In addition to his responsibilities as the Director of LIM College’s Writing Center, Dr. Robert Clark teaches several courses in the Arts & Communications Department, including 20th Century American Literature, New York Writers, News Reporting, and Research and Analysis. His research interests include Writing, American Literature, Authorship, New York City, Rhetoric, hermeneutics, semiotics, Latin American literature, and genre novels.
Dr. Clark works with fiction writers as a development editor and recently edited a book about acting technique, The Lucid Body, and a guide for film directors and directors of production, Cinematography for Directors, as well as academic articles by economists.
Prior to joining LIM College in 2008, Dr. Clark was a Senior Editor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Contributing Associate Editor for Columbia Magazine, and an Associate Editor at Lingua Franca magazine. He is also principal of Robert Clark Communication, which offers consulting services and developmental editing for writers.
Dr. Clark hired and led 27 academic experts in writing The Real Guide to Graduate School, a guidebook and quantitative assessment of graduate education in the humanities in the U.S. 1997. He has published academic articles about Paul Auster, D.H. Lawrence and other contemporary authors for Multicultural Authors, a sourcebook for literature professors published by Greenwood Press as well as a wide range of articles for Columbia Magazine about science, business education, young poets, and New York City.
In 2010, Dr. Clark presented at the International Writing Center Association convention with two LIM College students on the challenges of student blogging. He also presented at the Westchester University Poetry Conference that year on the scholarship of the poet Rachel Wetzsteon. In 2009, Dr. Clark presented at the College Composition and Communication Conference (CCCC) with LIM College professors Melinda Wilson and Denice Yanni.
A member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA), Dr. Clark holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, as well as a Master of Arts degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Boston University.
In his free time, Dr. Clark volunteers for organizations concerned with hunger and animal welfare.
