Fred M. Clark
Professor of Portuguese, Director of Graduate Studies and Graduate Advisor of Portuguese
At UNC since 1967

Ph.D. U of Florida, 1968
B.A. U of Florida, 1964

Areas of Research: Brazilian theater Brazilian women playwrights Semiotics of theater

Telephone: 919-962-3413

Email:fclark@email.unc.edu

Mailing Address:
CB#3170
Dept of Romance Languages & Literatures
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3170





Synopsis:
Fred M. Clark received his Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese from the University of Florida in 1968. He has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1967. His publications focus on theater and include articles and the following books: Objective Methods for Testing Authenticity and the Study of Ten Comedias Attributed to Lope de Vega (1971), La Comedia I (edited with Alva V. Ebersole, 1974), La Comedia II (edited with Alva V. Ebersole, 1975), Twentieth-Century Brazilian Theater: Essays (with Ana Lúcia Gazolla de García, 1978), The Wedding Dress (translation and study of Nelson Rodrigues' Vestido de noiva, 1980), Impermanent Structures: Semiotic: Readings of Nelson Rodrigues' "Vestido de noiva," "Album de família," and "Anjo negro" (1991), and Spectator, Character, Text: Semiotic Readings of Nelson Rodrigues' Theater (1995). His current research involves twentieth-century Brazilian women playwrights. He is editor of the journal Hispanófila.