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Jo Alyson Parker, PhD

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Jo Alyson Parker PhD

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After spending nearly 30 years teaching in the English Department of Saint Joseph's University, I now am devoting myself to writing and volunteer work. My current project includes my project on narrative and time, which involves scholarly work on writers such as Kate Atkinson, J. M. Coetzee, Ted Chiang, Daniel Defoe, David Mitchell, Laurence Sterne, Virginia Woolf. I also continue to read and write about Jane Austen.

    • 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)