Clare Clark

I am Assistant Professor of Nineteenth Century Literature in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, the top-ranked university department in Ireland and one of the top departments in Europe. I have previously served upon and chaired the Colby Prize committee (in 2018 and 2019, respectively) and am a regular attendee at RSVP conferences. My research focuses on crime writing and reportage published in late-Victorian newspapers. My second monograph, British Detective Fiction: The Successors to Sherlock Holmes (2020), builds upon Stephen Knight's assertion that C19th newspapers and periodicals are where detectives first appeared. It therefore focuses on six case studies of little-studied detective series that were published in a range of ephemeral formats, from illustrated magazines to provincial newspapers. I am currently working on an article (hopefully for VPR!) focusing on dark tourism reportage in the wake of the 1888 Ripper murders.