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Jo Alyson Parker, PhD

Professor Emerita

Jo Alyson Parker PhD

Department

University

Office

Merion 117

Phone

610-660-1884
Contact

I conduct seminar-style courses. In all courses, students can expect collaborative-learning exercises, reading responses drafting for formal papers, peer-editing workshops, and a concluding an end-of-semester self-evaluation.

My areas of interest include the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novel, literary theory, narrative theory, literature and science, narrative and time, and gender issues.

    • BA, University of California, Irvine, 1981
    • MA, University of California, Irvine, 1984
    • PhD, University of California, Irvine, 1989

  • From 2014-18, I was the Managing Editor for KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time. I have served on the International Society for the Study of Time Council since 2001, and I am currently the Vice-President.

  • Selected Publications

    • Time in Variance, The Study of Time XVII. Ed. Arkadiusz Misztal, Paul A. Harris, and Jo Alyson Parker. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
    • “Out of Repetition Comes Variation”: Varying Time-Lines, Invariant Time, and Dolores’s Glitch in Westworld.” With Thomas Weissert. Time in Variance, The Study of Time XVII, co-edited with Paul A. Harris and Arkadiusz Misztal. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
    • “Ted Chiang’s Braided Stories of Memory, Narrative, and Technology: ‘The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Fiction.’” Performing Memories. Media, Creation, Anthropology, and Remembrance, edited by Gabriele Biotti. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2021, 184-98.
    • “Eternal Recursion, the Emergence of Metaconsciousness, and the Imperative for Closure.” With Thomas Weissert. Time’s Urgency: The Study of Time XVI, edited by Robert Daniel and Carlos Montemayor, Brill, 2019, pp. 1
    • “Mind the Gap(s): Holly Sykes’s Life, the ‘Invisible’ War, and the History of the Future in The Bone Clocks.” C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, vol. 6, no. 3, 2018, pp. 1-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/C21.47
    • “The Chaotic Trace: Stoppard's Arcadia and the Emplotment of the Past.” Time and Trace: The Study of Time XV. Ed. Sabine Gross and Steven Ostovich. Leiden: Brill, 2016.
    • “From Time’s Boomerang to Pointillist Mosaic: Translating Cloud Atlas into Film.” SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism 44:1 (2015): 123-35.
    • “A Brief History of the International Society for the Study of Time.” KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time 13:2 (2013): 269-94.
    • “Crusoe’s Foe, Foe’s Cruso, and the Origins and Future of the Novel.” KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time 11:1 (2011): 17-40.
    • Time: Limits and Constraints: The Study of Time XIII. Ed. Jo Alyson Parker, Paul Harris, and Christian Steineck. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Includes Jo Alyson Parker, “David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas of Narrative Constraints and Environmental Limits,” 201-17.
    • Narrative Form and Chaos Theory in Sterne, Proust, Woolf, and Faulkner. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
    • Time and Memory: The Study of Time XII. Ed. Jo Alyson Parker, Michael Crawford, and Paul Harris. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Includes “Preface to Section 1: Inscribing and Forgetting.”
    • “Teaching Emma’s Narratives and the Narrative of Emma.” In Approaches to Teaching Jane Austen’s Emma. Ed. Marcia Folsom. New York: Modern Language Association, 2004. 141-50.
    • “The Indeterminate Temporality of Hypertext.” In Time and Uncertainty: The Study of Time XI. Ed. Paul A. Harris and Michael Crawford. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 39-57.
    • “Remembering the Future: Memento, the Reverse Arrow of Time, and the Defects of Memory.” KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time 4:2 (2004): 239-57.
    • “‘The Clockmaker’s Outcry’: Tristram Shandy and the Complexification of Time.” In Disrupted Patterns: On Chaos and Order in the Enlightenment. Ed. Theodore E.D. Braun and John McCarthy. Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000. 147-60.
    • The Author’s Inheritance: Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, and the Establishment of the Novel. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1998.
    • “Complicating a Simple Story: Inchbald’s Two Versions of Female Power,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 30 (1997): 255-70.
    • “Spiraling Down ‘the Gutter of Time’: Tristram Shandy and the Strange Attractor of Death.” Weber Studies 14 (1997): 102-14.
    • “Strange Attractors in Absalom, Absalom!" in Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology. Ed. Joseph Tabbi and Michael Wutz. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. 99-118.
    • “Gendering the Robot: Stanislaw Lem’s ‘The Mask,’” Science-Fiction Studies 19 (1992): 178-91
    • “Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen’s Double Inheritance Plot,” REAL: The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 7 (1990): 159-190.
    • Michael J. Morris Grant for Scholarly Research (2018-19)
    • Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (2004)
    • Sabbatical Research Grants (2019, 2012-13, 2000)
    • Summer Research Grants (2016, 2010, 2003, 1996, 1993).
    • Curriculum Development Grant (2011)
    • Faculty Merit Teaching Awards (2005, 2004, 1995)
    • Faculty Merit Research Award (1998)