Educated at King's College London, Princeton University, and the Humboldt University Berlin, she took up a Junior Research Fellowship, and then a British Academy Research Fellowship at Merton College Oxford.
In 2008 she moved to Harvard University,[6] where she had first taught as a visiting professor the previous year.
[7] Clark’s main research has focused on Schubert analysis.
[7] Her interest in the properties of diatonicism and tonal spaces has also fed much of her work in the history of music theory, notably in her studies of Arthur von Oettingen and Heinrich Schenker.
[8] She was Reviews Editor for the Journal of the American Musicological Society.