Dr. Erin Clair
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Humanities, and Professor of English
English Department
Witherspoon Building
407 West Q St
Russellville, AR 72801
Phone: (479) 968-0486
E-mail: eclair@atu.edu
Education
BA - Case Western Reserve Univ
MA - Texas State Univ-San Marcos
PHD - Univ of Missouri-Columbia
Recently Taught Courses
ENGL 1023 - COMPOSITION II
ENGL 2023 - HONORS WORLD LITERATURE
ENGL 2173 - INTRO TO FILM
ENGL 2183 - HONORS INTRODUCTION TO FILM
ENGL 4383 - SEMINAR: AMERICAN LIT
ENGL 5383 - SEMINAR:AMERICAN LIT--
ENGL 6993 - THESIS RESEARCH
Professional Development
Dr. Clair specializes in pedagogy and in literature and culture of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. She founded the ATU Well-Being Series, which offers year-round events, classes, and workshops to help academic faculty and staff find work-life balance. As associate dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, Dr. Clair handles all dean-level student academic processes for the college.
Faculty Award of Excellence for Service, Arkansas Tech University, 2022
“Teaching Meditation and Mindfulness to Faculty to Combat the Culture of Critique.” College English Association Conference. Birmingham, AL. March 2022
2021 Jerry G. Gaff Faculty Award for Emerging Leader from the Association for General and Liberal Studies
“Wellbeing for All,” Teaching Innovation Rally, Office of Innovation for Education,
Little Rock, AR. September 2021.
“The Rhinoceros and the Logician: Administration in the Pandemic,” with Jeffrey Cass. The CEA Critic, vol. 82, no. 3, Nov. 2020, pp. 200-07.
“Toward Solution-Based Research in Literary Studies: English Professors, Mental Health, and the Culture of Critique.” South Central Modern Language Association. Little Rock, AR. October, 2019
“The Joy Project: Helping Faculty to Find Joy in and out of the Classroom.” College
English Association Conference. New
Orleans, LA. March, 2019
