Joshua Clover (born December 30, 1962) is a writer and a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis.

His mother, Carol J. Clover, is the originator of the final girl theory in a book on horror films and a professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley.

Basic concerns include the array of changes wrought by deindustrialization in the west, the decline of the United States empire and the future of global capitalism.

Particular focuses run from the rise of office work to the nature of financialization, from the world after the end of the Soviet project to the transformations of social movements, all considered within the framework of Marxist value theory, with a particular interest in racialized regimes of power and struggle against state and capital.

Judith Butler has written that " In this brilliant volume, the fragmented world of a late and lost modernity has its own moving and lucid affect, its forms of aliveness.

"[8] One month before the trial was scheduled to begin, the Davis Dozen accepted a plea deal from the Yolo County District Attorney.

[9] Nick Irvin, in a February 2019 opinion piece for The California Aggie, drew attention to published comments by Clover suggesting he was in favor of killing police.

[13] UC Davis Chancellor Gary May replied in a letter to Gallagher that "Professor Clover’s statements, although offensive and abhorrent, do not meet the legal requirement for 'true threats' that might exempt them from First Amendment protection.