Department Chair and Professor
Department of English
Office - Bellarmine 121
Phone: (610) 660-1884
Email: jparker@sju.edu
Education
B.A., University of California, Irvine, 1981
M.A., University of California, Irvine, 1984
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1989
Courses Taught
English 1011 (The Craft of Language)
English 1021 (Texts and Contexts)
English 1033 (The World of Fiction-Honors)
English 2031 (Introduction to Literary Theory)
English 2111 (Seminar in Narrative Form)
English 2511 (The Eighteenth-Century Novel)
English 2571 (Nineteenth-Century Authors: Jane Austen)
English 4125 (Authorship in the Eighteenth Century)
Honors 2243 (Women's Writing as Emancipation)
Publications
Narrative Form and Chaos Theory in Sterne, Proust, Woolf, and Faulkner. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Time and Memory: The Study of Time XII. Ed. Jo Alyson Parker, Michael Crawford, and Paul Harris. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Includes “Preface to Section 1: Inscribing and Forgetting.”
"Teaching Emma's Narratives and the Narrative of Emma." In Approaches to Teaching Jane Austen's Emma. Ed. Marcia Folsom. New York: Modern Language Association, 2004. 141-50.
"The Indeterminate Temporality of Hypertext." In Time and Uncertainty: The Study of Time XI. Ed. Paul A. Harris and Michael Crawford. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 39-57.
"Remembering the Future: Memento, the Reverse Arrow of Time, and the Defects of Memory." KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time 4:2 (2004): 239-57.
"'The Clockmaker's Outcry': Tristram Shandy and the Complexification of Time." In Disrupted Patterns: On Chaos and Order in the Enlightenment. Ed. Theodore E.D. Braun and John McCarthy. Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000. 147-60.
The Author's Inheritance: Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, and the
Establishment of the Novel. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1998.
"Complicating a Simple Story: Inchbald's Two Versions of Female Power," Eighteenth-Century Studies 30 (1997): 255-70.
"Spiraling Down 'the Gutter of Time': Tristram Shandy and the Strange Attractor of Death." Weber Studies 14 (1997): 102-14.
“Strange Attractors in Absalom, Absalom!" in Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology. Ed. Joseph Tabbi and Michael Wutz. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. 99-118.
"'Gendering the Robot: Stanislaw Lem's 'The Mask,'" Science-Fiction Studies 19 (1992): 178-91
"Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen's Double Inheritance Plot," REAL: The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 7 (1990): 159-190.
General Fields of Professional Interest
Eighteenth-century novel
Literary theory
Narrative theory
Literature and science
Literature and time
Pedagogical style
I conduct seminar-style courses. In all courses, students can expect collaborative-learning exercises, peer-editing workshops, and a portfolio assignment concluding with an end-of-semester self-evaluation.
Other information
Member MLA, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, International Society for the Study of Time, Society for Literature and Science, Phi Beta Kappa.
Book Review Editor for KronoScope: The Journal for the Study of Time ; Production Editor of Times News: The Newsletter for the International Society for the Study of Time.
Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (2004); Faculty Merit Teaching Award (2005, 2004, 1995); Faculty Merit Research Award (1998); Summer Research Grant (2003, 1996, 1993).