Jamie Parra
Assistant Professor
B.A., New York University
M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D.; Columbia University
Office: Palamountain 315
Phone: (518) 580-5172
Email: jparra@skidmore.edu
Teaching and Research Interests:
- 19th-century American literature
- African American literature
- Slavery
- Theories of narrative and the novel
- Theories of literary character
- Gender and sexuality studies
Courses Taught:
- EN 105: The Afterlife of Slavery in Contemporary Literature and Art
- EN 211: Fiction
- EN 229: No Place Like Home
- EN 229: Transcendentalism
- EN 322: Bad Melville
- SSP 100: Scribner Seminar
Selected Publications:
- 鈥�,鈥� American Literary History (2018)
- "鈥� (review of John Frow鈥檚 Character and Person), NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction (2016)
- 鈥�,鈥� J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (2015)
- 鈥溾�� (review of Hilton Als鈥檚 White Girls), Public Books (2014)
Honors:
- C3 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Williams College, 2015-2016
- Marjorie Hope Nicholson Fellowship, Columbia University, 2008-2014
- William Bush Baer Memorial Prize, New York University, 2007