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Clara Franklin

Clara Franklin

Lecturer in English

112 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building

112 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building

Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building

Spring 2025 Office Hours

Monday 12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Wednesday 12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Friday 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. and Zoom by appointment. Please send me a message on Canvas or an email at cwv5094@psu.edu to set up a Zoom appointment or an in-person meeting outside of my listed office hours.

Professional Bio

Clara Franklin is a lecturer in the Department of English at Penn State.

Since 2016, Clara has taught various in-person and online courses such as rhetoric and composition, business writing, technical writing, effective writing in the humanities, introduction to humanities, and composition for the ARCHES program (Lourdes University).

In addition to her teaching, Clara has contributed to academic research at institutions such as the Musée Guimet and Institut national d’histoire de l’art with the late Anthony Cutler, Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Art History.

Her recent professional development includes workshops and conferences, focusing in large part on the integration of technology in teaching and the impact of generative AI in academia. Other research interests include rhetoric, the teaching of first-year writing, twentieth-century poetry, art history, and video game studies.