Dr. Hatley Clifford

Dr. Clifford began teaching at the Academy in the fall of 2018. She studied English as an undergraduate at the Virginia Military Institute, where she played soccer and ran track. She received her M.A. in English from Virginia Tech and her Ph.D. from West Virginia University. Her research and teaching interests include modern American poetry and drama, environmental literature, the city in literature, women writers, and trauma narratives. She is publishing a chapter on Marianne Moore’s “An Octopus” in the forthcoming ecocritical collection Modernism in the Green, from Routledge Press. Throughout her career, she has taught a range of English courses, including Modern American Poetry and Drama, Short Story and the Novel, American Literature, and Composition. At the Academy, she teaches English courses, including American Literature, Shakespeare, Introduction to Theater and Drama, and Junior Colloquium. In her free time, she enjoys playing the drums and guitar, listening to her highly-cultivated Pandora stations, watching soccer, going on road trips, and making sure her mini dachshund doesn’t eat chocolate.