Carol J. Clover


Carol Jeanne Clover is an American professor of Medieval Studies and American Film at the University of California, Berkeley. Clover has been widely published in her areas of expertise. She is the author of three books. Clover's 1992 book, Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film achieved popularity beyond academia. Clover is credited with developing the "final girl" theory in the horror genre, which has changed both popular and academic conceptions of gender in horror films.
Clover is a featured expert in the film S&Man, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006.

Biography

Clover attended the University of California at Berkeley for both her undergraduate and graduate studies.  In 1965, Clover was a Fulbright Fellow at Uppsala University in Sweden.  From 1971 to 1977 Clover was an assistant professor at Harvard University before returning to Berkeley, where she became Class of 1936 Professor Emerita in the departments of rhetoric, film, and Scandinavian.
Honors   Clover has been awarded fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies, as well as the Mellon, Guggenheim, and Rockefeller foundations.  In 2001 she became the Hesselgren Distinguished Professor. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and has honorary doctorates from Lund University and the University of Iceland.  For her scholarly contributions to the study of early Icelandic culture, she was honored in 2018 by the president of Iceland with the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Falcon.

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