Head, Department of English

Office: Keezell 217
Phone: 540-568-6797
Email: parke3ml@jmu.edu

Courses: On sabbatical Fall 2013

Specialization:
British Romantic Literature

Education: 
M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
B.A., University of Alabama

Publications:
Books
Inferno Revealed: From Dante to Dan Brown. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming October 2013. (With           Deborah Parker)

The DVD and the Study of FIlm: The Attainable Text. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
          (With Deborah Parker)

Noctes Ambrosianae, (Volumes 3 and 4 of Blackwood’s Magazine 1817-1825).
          London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006.

Literary Magazines and British Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University
          Press, 2001.

Book in Progress:
“Blackwood’s Magazine and the Aestheticization of Knowledge.”

Articles
“Something to Declare: History in Egoyan’s Ararat,” University of Toronto Quarterly 76
          (2007): 1040-54.

“The Battle of Algiers,” Film Quarterly 60 (Summer 2007): 62-66.

“Directors and DVD Commentary: the Specifics of Intention,” Journal of Aesthetics and
          Art Criticism 62 (2004): 13-22. (With Deborah Parker). Reprinted in The Philosophy
          of Film: Introductory Text and Readings. Eds. Thomas Wartenberg and Angela
          Curran. London: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.

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