VèVè Amasasa Clark

In 2011, the African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley launched the VèVè Clark Institute for Engaged Scholars. The program works to prepare a cadre of African Studies majors in the discipline for graduate programs, professional schools, and other postgraduate careers.

Clark, VèVè A. (Editor) & Johnson, Sara E. (Editor) (2006). Kaiso!: Writings by and about Katherine Dunham (Studies in Dance History). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:#d33}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:#d33}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#3a3;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}ISBN 978-0299212742

Clark, VèVè (Editor) & Garner, Shirely Nelson (Editor) & Higonnet, Margaret (Editor) (1996) Anti-feminism in the Academy. Paperback. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415910712

Clark, VèVè A. (Editor) & Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher (Editor) & Sprengnether, Madelon (Editor) (1993). Revising the Word and the World: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism. Paperback. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226400648

The Haitian Studies Association honored Clark in 1992 during its fourth annual conference at Tufts University. She received the inaugural Social Sciences Distinguished Service Award at UC Berkeley in 1996. She also received a Guggenheim Fellowship for research on Dunham, a fellowship to study at the Université de Dakar, Senegal. She was a fellow-in-residence at Brown University through the Rockefeller Foundation.

Clark returned to the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 as an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies, where she taught popular courses on African women writers and African Diaspora literature.

Clarke, VèVè (Author) & Hodson, Millicent (Author) & Neiman, Catrina (Author) (1984) The Legend of Maya Deren, Vol 1 Part 1: Signatures (1917-1942). Paperback. New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives. ISBN 978-0911689150

During the 1970s, Clark worked as a teaching assistant in French and later as a lecturer in Afro-American Studies. Clark received her Ph.D in French and ethnology in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. While completing her Ph.D thesis at UC Berkeley, she joined Tufts University as an assistant professor of African and Caribbean literature.

Clark was born in Jamaica, N.Y., and was the only child of Pauline Kirton from the Caribbean and Alonzo Clark from North Carolina. She considered becoming a doctor or a musician, but instead chose to study romance languages at Queens College of the City University of New York. She received her bachelor's degree in 1966. She continued her language studies at the Université de Nancy in Lorraine, France, and in 1969 returned to Queens College and received her master's degree in French.

VèVè Amasasa Clark (December 14, 1944 – December 1, 2007) was an author and scholar who coined the phrase “diaspora literacy.” She was a professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 1991 until her death in 2007.