selected scholarly activity
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books
- Minimal Romanticism 2016
- Introduction queer moments: The performative temporalities of eve kosofsky sedgwick 2013
- Regarding Sedgwick, Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory 2013
- Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory 1995
- New Romanticisms: Theory and Critical Practice 1994
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chapters
- Blake’s decomposite art: On the image of language and the ruins of representation. 233-261. 2021
- Last Words: Voice, Gesture, and the Remains of Frankenstein. 13-31. 2020
- Goya's Scarcity. 86-121. 2016
- Hegel, Eating: Schelling and the Carnivorous Virility of Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. 93-120. 2016
- This piercing bouquet: An interview with eve kosofsky sedgwick. 243-262. 2013
- The last temptation of Marion Woodman: The anorexic remainder in Bone: Dying into life. 215-233. 2009
- "On Being 'The Last Kantian in Nazi Germany': Dwelling with Animals after Levinas". 41-74. 2005
- Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite. 115-139. 2004
- Otherwise than God: Schelling, Marion. 133-176. 2000
- "On being 'The Last Kantian in Nazi Germany': Dwelling with Animals after Levinas". 165-198. 1997
- Being Humaned: Medical Documentaries and the Hyperrealization of Conjoined Twins. 338-355. 1996
- Speculations: Idealism and its Rem(a)inders. 1-35. 1995
- The Necessary Heritage of Darkness:’ Tropics of Negativity in Schelling, Derrida, and de Man. 79-146. 1995
- Against Theological Technology: Blake's 'Equivocal Worlds'. 164-222. 1994
- Monstrosity, Illegibility, Denegation: de Man, Nichol, and the Resistance to Postmodernism. 259-300. 1994
- How to Do Things with Shakespeare: Illustrative Theory and Practice in Blake's Pity. 106-133. 1992
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internet publications
- On Animal Faith 2025
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journal articles
- Abolish the University Build the Sanctuary Campus. CR: The New Centennial Review. 21:1-17. 2021
- Insult to Injury: Romantic Wartime and the Desecrated Corpse. European Romantic Review. 30:275-285. 2019
- “Can the university stand for peace?”: Omar Khadr, Higher Education, and the Question of Hospitality. CR: The New Centennial Review. 18:283-346. 2018
- Editors' Preface: Ecce animot: Postanimality from Cave to Screen. Yale French Studies. 1-18. 2015
- What Remains to Be Seen: Animal, Atrocity, Witness. Yale French Studies. 143-171. 2015
- Animals . . . In Theory: Nine Inquiries in Human and Nonhuman Life. CR: The New Centennial Review. 11:1-16. 2011
- Introduction: On the Lessons of Balachandra Rajan. University of Toronto Quarterly. 80:619-651. 2011
- Unsocial Kant: The Philosopher and the Un-regarded War Dead. Wordsworth Circle. 41:60-68. 2010
- Schelling’s wartime: philosophy and violence in the age of Napoleon. European Romantic Review. 19:139-148. 2008
- Lost and found in translation: Romanticism and the legacies of Jacques Derrida. Studies in Romanticism. 46:161-182. 2007
- Bereft: Derrida's Memory and the Spirit of Friendship. South Atlantic Quarterly. 106:291-324. 2007
- Romanticism and the Legacies of Jacques Derrida, Part 1. Studies in Romanticism. 46:161-263. 2007
- Romanticism and the Legacies of Jacques Derrida, Part 2. Studies in Romanticism. 46:267-363. 2007
- We "Other Prussians": Bodies and Pleasures in de Quincey and Late Kant. European Romantic Review. 14:261-287. 2003
- Kant's Aliens: The Anthropology and Its Others. CR: The New Centennial Review. 1:201-289. 2001
- Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000
- "Fixing" Katie and Eilish: Medical Documentaries and the Subjection of Conjoined Twins. Literature and Medicine. 17:45-67. 1998
- Heidegger's Craving: Being-on-Schelling. Diacritics. 27:8-33. 1997
- On the Itineraries of Democracy: An Interview with Chantal Mouffe. Studies in Political Economy. 49:131-148. 1996
- Book Review: Blake, Ethics, and Forgiveness. Christianity & Literature. 44:397-400. 1995
- "Visibility Should Not Be Visible": Blake's Borders and the Regime of Sight. Wordsworth Circle. 25:29-36. 1994
- "The Innocence of Becoming Restored": Blake, Nietzsche, and the Disclosure of Difference. Studies in Romanticism. 29:91-91. 1990
- MONSTROUS READING + LONG POEM BY NICHOL,BP - THE 'MARTYROLOGY' AFTER DEMAN. Studies in Canadian Literature - Etudes en Litterature Canadienne. 15:1-32. 1990
- Monstrous Reading: The Martyrology After De Man. Studies in Canadian Literature - Etudes en Litterature Canadienne. 15:1-32. 1990
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media
- My experience as a lab rat has left me feeling sick about how we treat animals 2024
- Special Episode Part 2: David Clark on Building the Sanctuary Campus 2022
- Special Episode Part 1: Rebecca Gagan and David Clark on Finding a Path in the Shadow of Shame 2022
- Jung in the World | Marion Woodman & the Transformative Power of Uncertainty with David Clark 2022
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other
- Treasured tails of a beloved feline 2025
- Remembering Jennifer, My Stillborn Sister 2024
- A Letter to my students: You don't need AI in class 2023
- Nuclear fallout in Crawford Lake sediment a grim reminder 2023
- 'Vagrant': A label applied from an earlier life that never left me 2023
- A near-death experience on the path of my life 2021
- Given to tears: getting a shot in a mostly unvaccinated world 2021
- The fact that teachers committed these crimes makes matters worse 2021
- Doing what had to be done 2017
- Tyler J. Pollard Interviews David L. Clark: University Students Welcome Omar Khadr 2015
- The Canadian University and the War Against Omar Khadr 2015
- The Canadian University and the War Against Omar Khadr 2015
- My experience as a lab rat has left me feeling sick about how we treat animals 2014
- Ann Coulter and Blowhard Politics 2010
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presentations
- Enough Kant 2026
- 'I do not know how to teach: scenes from a life, made up,' Improvisation, Pedagogy, and Co-creative Worldmaking 2025
- War Wounds: On the Painted Image and the Injuriousness of History 2024
- I do not know how to teach 2024
- Quarantine Theory 2021
- Quarantine Theory 2021
- Lastness, Lateness, and Other Romantic Leave-Takings 2019
- Insult to Injury: Frankenstein and a Theory of the Corpse 2018
- "‘Great Deeds! With the Dead!'” 2018
- I won’t tear into you:’ Derrida, Levinas, and the Autobiographical Animal 2017
- On the Promise of Peace: Kant’s Wartime and the Tremulous Body of Philosophy 2017
- Life Less: Charles Bell, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Cadaver-Image 2017
- Anti-Islamophobia and Student Activism 2017
- Can the University Stand for Peace? Omar Khadr, Higher Education, and the Question of Hospitality 2017
- “Housing Problems,” Zoo Studies and the New Humanities 2016
- ‘Sickbed,’ Unmade Bed: In the Midst of Intimacy 2016
- Words of Welcome: Omar Khadr and The Hospitality Project 2016
- Life Less 2016
- "Animals at the End of the World,” “After Biopolitics" 2015
- The End of the World as We Know It 2015