{"id":11,"date":"2025-10-30T11:14:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/language-literature-and-culture\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:20:50","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/language-literature-and-culture\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-intro\">Our faculty explore the intersections between language and culture, power, technology, and the environment \u2014 often in collaboration with writers, artists, scientists, and communities. From local communities in Worcester to island nations in the Pacific, their work illuminates how language and culture reflect and reshape the world around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Building on this breadth of expertise, students join faculty mentors in exploring how language shapes and reflects the world \u2014 through collaborative research, community projects, and creative practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group triple-bottom-margin is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-areas-of-focus\">Areas of focus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-custom-content-position is-position-bottom-center\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim wp-block-cover__gradient-background has-background-gradient has-gradient-2-gradient-background\"><\/span><video class=\"wp-block-cover__video-background intrinsic-ignore\" autoplay muted loop playsinline src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/language-literature-and-culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/environmental-humanities-ambient.mp4\" data-object-fit=\"cover\"><\/video><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-678e1de51543986ba68a4179d4c7aef0\" id=\"h-environmental-humanities\">Environmental humanities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1rem\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p>Faculty are pioneering teaching and research that integrates climate, literature, film, visual arts, and justice. Through the lens of the environmental humanities, they ask how writers and filmmakers respond to rising seas or vanishing mangrove forests \u2014 and how equity-driven thinking can help communities imagine more sustainable futures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-custom-content-position is-position-bottom-center has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8e2c627c47723a9610b257ac0268c90b\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim wp-block-cover__gradient-background has-background-gradient has-gradient-2-gradient-background\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-155\" alt=\"\" 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https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/language-literature-and-culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/The-National-Imagination-digital-2048x1366.avif 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-large-font-size\" id=\"h-digital-humanities\">Digital humanities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1rem\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p>Language, Literature, and Culture faculty bring together fields such as critical race studies and Afro-Latin American studies with digital humanities to investigate the biases built into technology \u2014 and celebrate the ways marginalized communities reclaim agency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-custom-content-position is-position-bottom-left has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-546e8ccc03039a57a9c968488145acb3\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim wp-block-cover__gradient-background has-background-gradient has-gradient-2-gradient-background\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-157\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/language-literature-and-culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/Bad_Bunny-8.avif\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" 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