Lynn Schofield Clark

Short Biography

Lynn Schofield Clark is an interpretive cultural sociologist who explores the role media play in shaping claims to interpersonal, cultural, and religious authority. Her work is published in the Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, New Media & Society, and in several other journals and edited volumes. Her award-winning book From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural (Oxford University Press, 2003/2005) explored how young people from varied (and no) religious backgrounds interpreted popular culture's stories of the supernatural in relation to religious and spiritual understandings. She is also coauthor of Media, Home, and Family (Routledge, 2004) and editor of Religion, Media, and the Marketplace (Rutgers, 2007). Clark is Assistant Professor and director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver.