Julia Clarke

At Ransom Everglades, I teach upper school English and serve as a writing specialist for the college counseling office. I lived and worked in New England and New York for over a decade, but the sunshine state is a familiar place: I grew up in Tallahassee and earned my BA from the University of Florida. Most recently, I was an editor for a Manhattan-based advertising agency and taught literature courses in the evenings at Fairfield University; before that, I taught English and ran the yearbook at a boarding school in Connecticut. I received my PhD in English from Stony Brook University, and throughout the program, I found my passion for teaching at both Stony Brook and Lehman College in the Bronx. When I'm not gushing about Dickens and the Brontes, I am on a whale watch checking out humpbacks or watching Tiktoks of various breaching whales. I am also a runner, Peloton apologist, podcast consumer, cinephile, huge fan of contemporary fiction and avid traveler – I hope to return to my birthplace in Australia soon.