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Parker, Courtney A.

Dr. Courtney A. Parker

Assistant Professor of English

Contact

Email: courtney.parker@hawks.huntingdon.edu
Office: Flowers 306

Education

  • Ph.D., Early Modern English Literature, University of Alabama
  • M.A., English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University
  • B.A., English, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • B.A., Theater Studies, Huntingdon College

Biography

Courtney A. Parker joined the Huntingdon faculty in 2024 after working for two years as an Instructor at the University of Alabama, where she earned her doctorate in early modern English literature in the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies. Her research and teaching interests include renaissance perceptions and depictions of the supernatural, early popular literature, Shakespeare, Milton, gender studies, world literature, the American Civil War, and pedagogy in the undergraduate classroom.

Publications:

Peer-Reviewed Article

“Being ‘heretical about our chivalry’: Medieval Reenactment and National Consciousness in Charles

W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars,” forthcoming in Postmedieval.

Book Chapter (peer-reviewed)

‘“Witchy Woman”: Reading Women and Occult Power in Popular Literature of Early Modern

England,” in Boundaries of Violence, edited by Matthew Carter and Samantha Dressel.

Routledge, 2023

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