Robert Dale Parker
Professor of English, American Indian Studies, Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and Writing Studies
Education
Ph.D. in English, Yale University. A.B. in English and History, Brown University.
Teaching Interests
American literature and critical theory, including American Indian literature and a wide range of fiction and poetry.
Publications
Books
- Changing Is Not Vanishing: A Collection of Early American Indian Poetry, 1678-1930. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming fall, 2010.
- How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies. Oxford University Press, 2008.
- The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
- The Invention of Native American Literature. Cornell University Press, 2003.
- "Absalom, Absalom!": The Questioning of Fictions. Twayne, 1991.
- The Unbeliever: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. University of Illinois Press, 1988.
- Faulkner and the Novelistic Imagination. University of Illinois Press, 1985.
Works in Progress
- Articles on early American Indian poetry.
- A book on the crisis in American literary aesthetics in response to the Great Depression.
