Catherine Clark is the faculty athletic mentor for the Averett University cross country team.
Clark joined the Averett faculty in 2010 as an assistant professor of French and English in the department of language, literature and communication. She has also served as the director of the university’s Director of Study Abroad program since 2012.
Clark earned her undergraduate degree in English at Salem College in Winston-Salem where she was a member of the volleyball and equestrian teams. She went on to get her master's and Ph.D in comparative literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also spent summers studying at Middlebury College and the Sorbonne. While in graduate school, she trained in kickboxing and Tae Kwon Do and earned a second degree black belt.
Clark lives with her husband and two children in Mebane, North Carolina. She has three pets: one dog, a three-legged cat and a gold macaw. She also has two sisters, one who lives in New York and one who lives in Zurich, Switzerland. Clark was born in Austin, Texas, but spent most of her childhood in Green Bank, West Virginia. In her free time, she likes to draw/paint, read, travel, practice yoga and run.
