Mark Parker: Professor

Office: Keezell 309

Specialization: 
British Romantic Literature

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

Publications: 
Books 

Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy. UVA Press, 2017. (With Deborah Parker)

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.