Clare Callahan is a teacher and scholar of American literature, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Black Studies, and poverty studies. She develops cross-disciplinary initiatives and facilitates co-curricular programming in and beyond the university.

Recent & Forthcoming Publications

Callahan, Clare. “Poverty Futures.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 585-591.

Callahan, Clare. “A Swamp in Name Only: Imagined Geography, Abandonment, and the Archive in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 56, no. 3, 2023, pp. 430-450.

Callahan, Clare, Joseph Entin, Kinohi Nishikawa, and Irvin Hunt, editors. How Literature Understands Poverty, special issue of American Literature, vol. 94, no. 3, 2022.

Callahan, Clare. “Abandoned Being: The Aesthetics of Inhabiting in Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 67, no. 3, 2021, pp. 317-344.

Recent and Upcoming Talks

“Personhood, Self-Valorization and the Dream of ‘Making Things Better’ in Anzia Yezierska’s Arrogant Beggar,” American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 20-23, 2025.

“Song of the Poor: Negotiating Worth in Anzia Yezierska’s Salome of the Tenements,” Working-Class Studies Association, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, December 2-5, 2025.

Press

“Finding the Words” by Elinore Longobardi in Best of BC, May 24, 2023.

"Crucial grant supports health research on Central Texas" by Carlos Diaz in the The Daily Texan, Jan. 24, 2018.

"Going In, Getting Out: A Discussion about the Lasting Impacts of Racism," by William Kosinski in Orange Magazine, Nov. 14, 2017.

"Forum discusses modern slavery in prisons," by John Melendez in The Daily Texan, Oct. 31, 2017.