Professor Joanne Parker

Joanne Parker is Associate Professor in Victorian Literatureand Culture in the Department of English. She researches the relationships between history, legend, place and identity - particularly in the literature and culture of the long nineteenth century. With Dr Corinna Wagner, she was part of the AHRC-funded project Community, Identity and Victorian Medievalism, and she was one of ten researchers working on the five-year EU-funded project The Past in its Place. She teaches options in British Children's Literature and British Cultures (for inbound year-abroad students), and contributes to the teaching of The Legend of King Arthur (MA and undergraduate modules) and Empire Decadence and Modernity. She supervises dissertations on children's literature, historical literature, Victorian literature and Victoriana, medievalism. fantasy, myth, legend and fairytale.