{"id":3293,"date":"2012-08-08T12:16:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/?page_id=3293"},"modified":"2022-02-17T18:37:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T18:37:50","slug":"clarks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/clarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark, Stephan Eirik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephan Eirik Clark is the author of <em>Sweetness #9<\/em>, a novel (Little, Brown &amp; Co. 2014) and <em>Vladimir\u2019s Mustache<\/em> (Russian Life Books 2012), a short story collection that was named a finalist for the 2013 Minnesota Book Award. His short fiction has been published in such literary journals as <em>Witness<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Ninth Letter<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Cincinnati Review<\/em>, while hs creative non-fiction has twice been recognized as notable in the <em>Best American Essays<\/em> anthology. Professionally represented as a screenwriter while living in Los Angeles, Stephan has had his stories and screenwriting optioned multiple times, and been honored by the Monterey County Film Commission and Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s American Zoetrope film studios.<\/p>\n<p>A former Fulbright Fellow to Ukraine and one-time member of USC Film School, Stephan worked as a print and radio journalist before returning to academia. He earned his master\u2019s degree in English from the University of California, Davis and a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Southern California. His scholarly interests include the grotesque, post-World War II American literature, Denis Johnson, and the literature of California and the American West. In addition to having lived in five states and five countries, Stephan has taught at UC Davis, USC, Reed College, Belgorod State University, in Russia, and Kharkov National University, in Ukraine. At Augsburg, he teaches a wide variety of courses in the MFA Program (screenwriting, fiction) and at undergraduate level, including fiction writing, screenwriting, and the literature of the grotesque.<\/p>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>M.A. UC Davis<\/li>\n<li>Ph.D. University of Southern California<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Recent and Forthcoming Publications<\/h2>\n<p><em>Sweetness #9<\/em>, Little, Brown (Aug. 2014).<\/p>\n<p><em>Vladimir\u2019s Mustache and Other Stories<\/em>, Russian Life Books (2012).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Birds Over the Village N,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Southeast Review<\/em>\u00a030.1 (2012).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All Out of Funny in Crystal Lake, California.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Body and Soul: Selections from Ars Medica<\/em>. University of Toronto Press, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lady with the Stray Dog,\u201d\u00a0<em>Witness<\/em>\u00a0Volume XXIV, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy Year of European Underwear,\u201d\u00a0<em>Ninth Letter<\/em>, 2009-2010, Volume 6, No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephan Eirik Clark is the author of Sweetness #9, a novel (Little, Brown &amp; Co. 2014) and Vladimir\u2019s Mustache (Russian Life Books 2012), a short story collection that was named a finalist for the 2013 Minnesota Book Award. His short fiction has been published in such literary journals as Witness,\u00a0Ninth Letter, and\u00a0Cincinnati Review, while hs &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":46206,"parent":0,"menu_order":101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3293","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49063,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3293\/revisions\/49063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}