Dr. Sarah E. Parker

Dr. Sarah E. Parker

Dr. Sarah E. Parker

Associate Professor; Department Chair for Literature, Languages, and Culture (LLC) & Director, Center for Gender + Sexuality

Biography

Education

  • Ph.D., Comparative Literature with a focus in Renaissance Studies and the History of Medicine, University of North Carolina
  • M.A., French Renaissance Literature, Middlebury College and Paris III La Sorbonne Nouvelle
  • M.A., Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • B.A., French and English, University of North Carolina

Research Interests

  • Renaissance Literature and History of Medicine
  • Reading Publics/History of Reading/History of the Book
  • The History of Seventeenth-Century Science in England, The Royal Society
  • Popular Error (as early modern medical genre); Thomas Browne
  • Ancient Greek Medicine
  • Animal Studies
  • Feminist Criticism
  • Native American Literature, Louise Erdrich
  • Girolamo Cardano (sixteenth-century Italian doctor, author, and polymath)
  • French Huguenots in Florida

Location: Council Bldg. 129