Dr. Clifford's interests include composition and literary theory, contemporary nonfiction, and literature since 1945.

ENG 317: Writing about Film

ENG 561: Topics in American Literature: Postmodern American Fiction and Culture

• “Rhetorical Ideals and Disciplinary Realities.” College English 70:1 (2008): 304-313.

• with J. Schilb. Making Literature Matter, Third Edition. Boston: Bedford, 2006.

• with J. Schilb. Making Arguments About Literature. Boston: Bedford, 2005.

• “The Subject is Discourse.” Relations, Locations, Positions. Ed. J. Vanderburg et al. Urbana: NCTE, 2006.

• “The Unconscious Redux.” Reader Spring 2000: 17-21.