Merzamie Clark is a Top Scholar Fellow and Graduate Instructor at the University of Washington’s English Department. A Philippine-born and raised American citizen, she graduated with the UW’s College of Arts & Science’s Dean’s Medal in the Human
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Merzamie Clark is a Top Scholar Fellow and Graduate Instructor at the University of Washington’s English Department. A Philippine-born and raised American citizen, she graduated with the UW’s College of Arts & Science’s Dean’s Medal in the Humanities in 2013, and served for two years as an English teacher and U.S. cultural ambassador in South Korea through the Fulbright Program. There, she worked with South Korean students, North Korean defectors, and labor and marriage migrants from around South East Asia. She has tutored international students; worked with USCIS-detained immigrant minors; and served as a GED Tutor to jail inmates at a county correctional facility. Her passion for expanding educational opportunity and social mobility, especially to the underserved, underprivileged, and underrepresented, extends to championing the rights of various minority groups in a context of global justice, and is largely animated by the challenges and difficulties she faced as a first-generation immigrant and first-generation college student. Clark’s highly interdisciplinary research and teaching interests include 20th- and 21st-Century U.S. Literature & Culture; Comparative Studies in Race, Class, Gender, and Religion; Women’s Literature; Composition & Rhetoric; and issues of diversity, tolerance, and inclusion in Higher Education.
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