Colleen Clemens

I am a professor of English at Kutztown University where I direct the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.

I am an eager writer. My work has appeared in many types of spaces: magazines, academic journals. teaching manuals, anthologies, and creative spaces.

I have worked closely with Norton Publishing and Oxford University Press’s Gender Studies department. I wrote the teaching materials for Norton’s six-volume world literature anthology and several of Oxford’s introduction textbooks. Because I want information to be accessible to all, I have also written an open educational resource through the PA-Adopt grant, Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies.

I review novels by postcolonial authors and blog for World Literature Today. My interests in teaching, world literature, and social justice issues come together in her blogging for Learning for Justice, a publication I have admired since my undergraduate days. My articles on masculinity still have some of the highest unique visits for the entire blog site.

I am the co-editor of several non-fiction books including Philadelphia Reflections: Stories from the Delaware to the Schuylkill and have published short essays in various collections including Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists. My work on miscarriage and infertility has been published in many outlets including here at TRIVIA, in the collection Three Minus One, and in Chatter House Press’s Biting the Bullet collection, where I won honorable mention for my essay “Breath by Breath.”

I am a contributor to the monthly podcast Nothing Is Wrong With You Book Podcast.

E=mc²: A Story of Infertility, Miscarriage, and Love (Atmosphere Press, 2025), my first book-length memoir, defies the one-dimensional view of fertility medicine as a sterile, clinical process by sharing my often vulnerable journey as I became a mother."