John Parker

(2008)
Associate Professor
Medieval and Renaissance Drama

Degrees

Ph. D. University of Pennsylvania, 1999.
M. A. University of Pennsylvania, 1996.
B. A. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1994

Books

The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007).

Book Chapters

  • "Persona," in Cultural Reformations: From Lollardy to the English Civil War, ed. Brian Cummings and James Simpson, Twenty First Century Approaches,
    vol. 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). 
  • "Barabas and Charles I," in Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe: Cultural Contexts of his Drama, ed. Robert Logan and Sara Deats (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008). 

Book Reviews

  • Kenneth Gross, Shylock is Shakespeare and The Dream of the Moving Statue in Shakespeare Studies 36 (2008): 265-77.
  • John D. Cox, The Devil and the Sacred in English Drama 1350-1642 in Christianity and Literature 52.2 (2003): 262-5.

Articles

  • "Who's Afraid of Darwin? Revisiting Chambers and Hardison…and Nietzsche,"
    Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 40.1 (2010):7-35.
  • "What a Piece of Work is Man: Shakespearean Drama as Marxian Fetish, the
    Fetish as Sacramental Sublime," Journal of Medieval and Early
    Modern Studies 34.3 (2004): 643-72. 
  • "The Promise of History," Shakespeare Studies 30 (2002): 43-6. 
  • "The Dialectic of Allegoresis in Benjamin's Illuminations," Other Voices 1.1 (1997);archived at www.othervoices.org/parkerj/benj.html. 

Selected Honors and Awards

  • The Rome Prize, Medieval Studies, American Academy in Rome, 2008-2009.
  • Bundeskanzler-Stipendium, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, 1999-2000.
  • Diane Hunter Prize for the best dissertation submitted in English,
    University of Pennsylvania, 1999.