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Jamie Parra

Assistant Professor

Phone: 518-580-5172
Email: jparra@skidmore.edu
Office: Palamountain Hall 315

Education:

• B.A., New York University
• M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D.; Columbia University

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:

• “In the Vestibule of Another World,” American Literary History (2018)
• "Bodies of Literature” (review of John Frow’s Character and Person), NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction (2016)
• “How to Have Style in an Emergency: Huckleberry Finn and the Ethics of Fictionality,” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (2015)
• “Dream Girls” (review of Hilton Als’s 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