Harry Clark Maddux

Clark Maddux is an associate professor of early American literature in the Department of Languages and Literature. A specialist in Puritan Studies, Professor Maddux has published on Edward Taylor, John Bunyan, and Cotton Mather. He is the recipient of numerous research awards, including a Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Mayers Fellowship at the Huntington Library, a Donald C. Gallup Fellowship at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, and a fellowship at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel, Germany. He is currently editing volume 4 of Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana, which will contain Mather's commentary on Ezra through the Psalms, to be published in 2013. With Professor Rick Kennedy, Point Loma Nazarene Universiy, he is also co-editing the volume which will contain Mather's annotations on John and the Acts.

In the classroom, Professor Maddux helps students draw connections between the content of their classes and large problems that confront American society.  With them, he engages in service-learning projects designed to bring literature, its themes, content, and approaches, out of the classroom and into the community that surrounds Austin Peay State University.  He has presented classroom projects at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), the American Studies Symposium at Purdue, and has published on service-learning in The Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. 

He is also active in service at Austin Peay and across the state. He is the chair of the University's Service-Learning Advisory Committee, and has led service-learning training workshops at the University of Tennessee Martin, Southwest Tennessee Community College, and Pellissippi State Community College.  He has been the chair of the Advisory Committee of the Tennessee Campus Compact, a statewide presidential organization dedicated to advancing service-learning and civic engagement in the Volunteer State.  He is a member of the faculty senate at APSU, and is the faculty advisor to the Students for Secular Humanism, a student group that seeks to foster critical inquiry and promote separation of church and state.

View the full CV of Professor Maddux: Maddux_2011_CV.pdf