Tom Clark teaches across a range of disciplines in Victoria University’s First Year College, as well as supervising Research thesis students.
Prof Clark is Secretary of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) and Vice-President of the International Federation for Modern Language and Literature (FILLM).
Prof Clark's academic work combines an education in early English and Old Norse poetry with a professional background in speechwriting and policy advice to inform his teaching of rhetoric and public speaking, as well as various research projects looking at the poetic qualities of contemporary public language.
Experience
2006–present
Academic, Victoria University, Melbourne
2003–2004
Speechwriter, Victorian Premier's Office
Education
2003
University of Sydney, PhD
1996
University of Sydney, BA (Hons 1)
Publications
2019
Talking up a Legacy: Australian Prime Ministers and the Speeches We Remember Them by, University of Western Australia Publishing, Perth
2016
The Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation: Non-Indigenous People and the Responsibility to Engage, with Sarah Maddison and Ravi de Costa (eds), Springer Nature, Singapore
2013
Paul Keating’s Redfern Park speech and its rhetorical legacy, Overland: http://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-213/feature-tom-clarke/
2012
Stay on Message: Poetry and Truthfulness in Political Speech, Australian Scholarly Publishing: http://www.scholarly.info/book/9781921875670/
2012
For the Love of Regional Areas, Poetry ebook: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/144367
2011
Exploring non-Aboriginal Attitudes towards Reconciliation in Canada, with Ravi de Costa, in Ashok Mathur et al. (eds.), Cultivating Canada
2010
'Ideology, Prosody, and Eponymy: Towards a Public Poetics of Obama and Beowulf', Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship 7.1-2
2008
'The Cup of John Howard's Poetry: a brief rhetorispective', Overland 190
2003
A Case for Irony in Beowulf, with particular reference to its epithets, Peter Lang, Bern
Grants and Contracts
2014
Non-Indigenous pathways to reconciliation in Australia
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
2011
Focus groups on non-Indigenous attitudes towards Aboriginal reconciliation in Canada
Role:
Research Collaborator
Funding Source:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada)
2010
Pilot project on non-Indigenous attitudes towards Aboriginal reconciliation in Canada
Role:
Research Collaborator
Funding Source:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada)