Dr. Benjamin Parker

Associate Professor

Biography

Benjamin W Parker is an Associate Professor specializing in the history and theory of the novel, particularly focusing on the Victorian era. He has published extensively on English literary history, with contributions to notable journals such as Modern Language Quarterly and New Literary History. His forthcoming book, 'Misrecognitions: Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel,' is set to be published in 2024 by Cornell University Press. Parker's research delves into the use of recognition scenes in Victorian novels and how they critique misrecognitions in the context of nineteenth-century capitalism. His teaching includes courses on nineteenth-century British authors and Victorian culture, incorporating philosophical and psychoanalytic approaches to literature. He holds a B.A. from Columbia University (2005) and a Ph.D. from the same institution (2013).

Research Interests

Victorian Novel Literary Theory Nineteenth-Century British Literature Philosophical Literature Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism

Courses

Right Thing Brontës Brontëism Dickens: Novel Society Nineteenth-Century British Novel Austen, Eliot, James Terrible Births: Novel Romanticism Severed Selves: Victorian Horror Science Fiction Darwin Crises Faith: Victorian Prose, Poetry, Fiction Art Novel: Henry James Henry James Art Novel Invention Policing English Novel Theory Theory Novel Transcendental Real Nineteenth-Century British Fiction Rhetoric Narrative Discourse, Austen James Psychoanalysis Novel