Rate My Professor Clifton Snider

California State University, Long Beach

Literature Arts and Culture Education English and Literature Creative Writing and Poetry Literary Theory Literature

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5.05/4/2026

Encourages students to think independently.

4.06/27/2025

Encourages creativity and critical thinking.

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Clifton Snider was a Lecturer Emeritus in the English Department at California State University, Long Beach, specializing in Literature, where he taught for over three decades until his retirement in 2009. He earned his B.A. with honors in 1969 and M.A. in 1971, both in English Literature from CSULB, and completed his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of New Mexico in 1974, with a dissertation offering a Jungian analysis of Algernon Charles Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse. Snider began teaching part-time at CSULB in 1971 while pursuing his doctorate and later served full-time for 36 years. He pioneered LGBTQ literary studies at the university, designing and teaching the first college course on gays and lesbians in literature in 1996. He offered seminars on Oscar Wilde employing Jungian and Queer criticism and published scholarly articles on authors including W.H. Auden, Emily Dickinson, Edward Lear, Carson McCullers, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf.