Michael Tavel Clarke
- Assistant Professor of English
- UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
Michael Tavel Clarke is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. His recently published book, These Days of Large Things: The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930 (Michigan 2007), addresses the American obsession with bigness at the turn of the twentieth century and its relation to changing conceptions of the body. He is currently working on a new book on the cultural history of an American icon, the little guy.