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Primary Areas of Specialization:
Literary Theory, Contemporary Novel, Queer Theory, Asexuality Theory, Popular Fiction, Genre Studies -
Field of Interest:
Asexuality and Aromanticism, Gender & Sexuality, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century -
About:
Rosie Clarke's (she/her) current research focuses on feminist phenomenology, the anti-feminist tradition, and states of exhaustion in contemporary women's writing. Her central passion is literary theory and she has published on the utility of developing new asexual and quantum approaches to reading literature. She completed a Master of Philosophy at The University of Queensland in 2023 where her thesis, “A-spec Reading Practices: Strategising Asexual Literary Criticism Through Young Adult Fiction,” won a Dean’s Award for Outstanding Higher Degree by Research Theses. -
Education:
M. Phil., University of Queensland (2023); B. A. (Hons) in English Literature, Durham University (2014) -
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
Clarke, Rosie. “Aristocracy’s Liquid Remains: Class Mobility as a Structure of Feeling in The Princess Casamassima.” The Henry James Review, Forthcoming, Winter 2027.
Clarke, Rosie and Ela Przybylo. “BED MOODS: Asexual Erotics in an Age of Exhaustion." Atmospheres and Experiments in Feminist Continental Philosophy, special issue of philoSOPHIA, vol. 16, Forthcoming, Fall 2026.
Clarke, Rosie. “White Focalization as Racist Interpellation in Caryl Phillips' Crossing the River.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2025.2526414.
Clarke, Rosie. “Somniac Slob, Sleeping Beauty: Discovering A-speculative Desire in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation.” Hecate: Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation, vol. 48, no. 1, 2024, pp. 191-211.
Clarke, Rosie. “Schrodinger’s Katniss: A Diffractive Reading of Quantum Entanglement and The Hunger Games.” Rhizomes, no. 37, 2021, https://doi.org/10.20415/rhiz/037.e01 -
Conference Presentations and Selected Publications
“Bedrot Metamorphosis: Feminist Affects of Exhaustion and Sleep as Labour in Sad Girl Lit.” Bad Feelings: Sadness + Gender in Contemporary Culture, University College Dublin Humanities Institute, Upcoming 8-9 June 2026.
“Somniac Slob, Sleeping Beauty: Discovering A-speculative Desire in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation.” National Women's Studies Association 44th Annual Conference, Detroit, Michigan, 15 November 2024.
“Growing Up Acespec: A Speculative Approach to Queer Time.” Aze Journal, 18 Feb. 2023, www.azejournal.com/article/2023/2/16/growing-up-acespec-a-speculative-approach-to-queer-time. Editorial.
“Responding to Asexual Literature: Acespeculative Reading Strategies for Literary Critics.” Activist Energies: The Australian Womens’ and Gender Studies Association Biennial Conference, U of Melbourne, 28 November 2022.
“Slimy Entanglement: Mirror Goop as Quantum Phenomena in 90s Sci-Fi Cinema.” Queer Temporalities in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games International Conference, U of Murcia, 2 February 2021. -
Awards
2025 The Catherine Musello Cantalupo Prize for best graduate essay on religion and literature, Rutgers University, Essay title: “Feltured Fendes and Fracturing Wounds: Permeable Mothers, Monsters, and Lovers in Sir Gowther”.
2023 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Higher Degree by Research Thesis, University of Queensland, Thesis title: “A-spec Reading Practices: Strategising Asexual Literary Criticism Through Young Adult Fiction”
2022 Dr John McCulloch Memorial Prize for best graduate student conference paper, University of Queensland.
2021 A. E. E. Pearse Prize for published article, “Schrödinger's Katniss: A Diffractive Reading of Quantum Entanglement and The Hunger Games.”
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