Clark Hulse is Professor of English and Art History and Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Humanities Council, and has consulted regularly on public humanities projects with the Newberry Library, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and the Chicago Humanities Festival. He has written on approaches to teaching Renaissance culture, including multimedia and online techniques, and was a member of the program committee for the 1998 International Conference on Teaching Shakespeare, co-sponsored by Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the Folger Library, and the National Council of Teachers of English. His research in English Renaissance literature and art history has been supported by Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, and grants from the British Academy and College Art Association.
Clark is the author of The Rule of Art: Literature and Painting in the Renaissance (1990) and Metamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic (1981). He has also co-edited Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race and Empire in Renaissance England (2000).