Dr. Susan Parrish

Biography

Susan Parrish is a Professor in the Department of English and the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan. She earned her PhD from Stanford University in English in 1998 and has a distinguished career in scholarship and teaching. Her research interests include the intersection of race, environment, and environmental knowledge, particularly during the European colonization of the Americas. Parrish's notable works include 'American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World' which won the Phi Beta Kappa Emerson Award and the Jamestown Prize, and 'Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History' that examines the societal impact of the disastrous flood of the twentieth century. She has also contributed to several edited volumes and articles, including the Norton Critical Edition of Faulkner’s 'Absalom' and the 'Cambridge Companion to American Literature and Environment.' She has received several fellowships and awards, including the James Russell Lowell Prize and is recognized for her teaching excellence with multiple awards at the University of Michigan. Currently, she chairs the Michigan Society Fellows and continues to engage with various scholarly boards and initiatives.

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