Op-Eds, Podcasts, and Lectures Featured Op-Eds David L. Clark and Orrin N.C. Wang. “Given (What Academics Text)” [In three parts]. The Non-Standard, Vol. 1, No. 3, August 17, 2025; Vol. 1, No. 5, August 31, 2025; and Vol. 1, No. 7, September 21, 2025. “Animal Faith,” The Melange 5.4 (2025). “Treasured tails of a beloved feline,” The Globe and Mail, 23 January 2025. “Remembering Jennifer, My Stillborn Sister,” The Hamilton Spectator, Saturday 7 September 2024. “A letter to my students: You don’t need AI in class,” The Hamilton Spectator, 8 September 2023. “Nuclear fallout in Crawford Lake sediment a grim reminder,” The Hamilton Spectator, 14 August 2023. “‘Vagrant’: A label applied from an earlier life that never left me,” The Hamilton Spectator, 22 April 2023. “A near-death experience on the path of my life,” The Hamilton Spectator, 16 July 2021. “Given to tears: Getting a shot in a mostly unvaccinated world,” The Hamilton Spectator, 23 June 2021. “The fact that teachers committed these crimes makes matters worse,” The Hamilton Spectator, 17 June 2021. “Doing what had to be done,” The Globe and Mail, 6 November 2017. “Tyler J. Pollard Interviews David L. Clark: University Students Welcome Omar Khadr,” Truthout, 22 September 2015. “The Canadian University and the War Against Omar Khadr,” Advocacy Matters, June 2015, pp. 5-8. “The Canadian University and the War Against Omar Khadr,” Truthout, 27 May 2015. “My experience as a lab rat has left me feeling sick about how we treat animals,” The Globe and Mail, 21 September 2014. Adapted into a short film, “Lab Rat,” dir. Jesse Gabe (Carousel Pictures, 2024). “Ann Coulter and Blowhard Politics,” Truthout, 31 March 2010. Podcasts Selected Invited Talks and Conference Papers “Enough Kant,” Modern Language Association, Toronto, January 2026. “I do not know how to teach: scenes from a life, made up,” Improvisation, Pedagogy, and Co-creative Worldmaking, University of Guelph, 3 April 2025. “War Wounds: On the Painted Image and the Injuriousness of History,” MMLA, Loyola University, 15 November 2024. “I do not know how to teach,” Psychosocial Transformations: The School, the Clinic, the Archive, York University, 10 November 2024. “Quarantine Theory,” American Comparative Literature Association, 8 April 2021. “Quarantine Theory,” Modern Language Association, 7 January 2021. “Lastness, Lateness, and Other Romantic Leave-Takings,” (Plenary Seminar with Jacques Khalip), Late Romanticism Conference, University of Leuven, 13 December 2019. “Insult to Injury: Frankenstein and a Theory of the Corpse,” University of Maryland-College Park, 9 November 2018. “’Great Deeds! With the Dead!'” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Brown University, 24 June 2018. “’I won’t tear into you:’ Derrida, Levinas, and the Autobiographical Animal,” Emory University, 5 December 2017. “On the Promise of Peace: Kant’s Wartime and the Tremulous Body of Philosophy,” Emory University, 4 December 2017. “Life Less: Charles Bell, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Cadaver-Image,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, University of Ottawa, 11 August 2017. “Anti-Islamophobia and Student Activism.” Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 4 April 2017. “Can the University Stand for Peace? Omar Khadr, Higher Education, and the Question of Hospitality,” Humanities Institute, Simon Fraser University, 9 February 2017. “Housing Problems,” Zoo Studies and the New Humanities, McMaster University, 2 December 2016. “’Sickbed,’ Unmade Bed: In the Midst of Intimacy,” Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, 11 November 2016. “Words of Welcome: Omar Khadr and The Hospitality Project,” Woodsworth College, University of Toronto, 2 February 2016. “Life Less,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, 7 January 2016. “Animals at the End of the World,” “After Biopolitics,” Rice Humanities Research Center, Rice University, 19 November 2015. “The End of the World as We Know It,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Winnipeg, 15 August 2015. Interviews
