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Publications
Professor Parker's books are Faulkner and the Novelistic Imagination, The Unbeliever: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, "Absalom, Absalom!": The Questioning of Fictions, and, in recent years, The Invention of Native American Literature, The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, and How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies. The Invention includes an extended theoretical discussion of the practice of transcribing oral narratives into written literary texts, and The Sound the Stars Make includes an extended discussion of editorial theory, a topic that can hold considerable interest for scholars and students of writing studies. How to Interpret Literature directly addresses scholars and students who want to review or develop their familiarity with recent developments in critical theory. Partly to redress the underestimation of early American Indian literacy, Parker's current project is an anthology of early American Indian poetry (up to 1930), based on archival research uncovering many now forgotten American Indian poets.
Professor Parker's work has also appeared in Literary Theory: An Anthology (ed. Julie Rifkin and Michael Ryan); American Literary History; The Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory; Modern Fiction Studies; Studies in American Fiction; Studies in American Indian Literatures; The Faulkner Journal, Callaloo, Etudes Faulkneriennes; symploke; and a number of edited collections.
:: Teaching
Professor Parker’s graduate-level surveys in contemporary
critical theory have often enrolled students from the Program in
Writing Studies. He teaches a wide variety of courses in American
literature and critical theory for undergraduate and graduate students.
:: Awards
At the University of Illinois, Professor Parker has been a University
Scholar, and he is the recipient of the Arnold O. Beckman award
for special distinction in research, the Harriet and Charles Luckman
Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching, the William F. Prokasy
Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, the Graduate College
Award for Outstanding Mentoring of Graduate Students, and the Robert
Schneider Award for outstanding teaching and service in the Department
of English.
:: Webpage
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rparker1/www/
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