John Parker
Associate Professor
John Parker works on medieval and Renaissance drama, with an eye toward Christian theology and modern theory. He is the author of _The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe_ (Cornell, 2007), along with several book chapters, articles, and reviews. Other interests include classical drama, the New Testament, Patristics, Luther, and German philosophy after Kant — especially Marx, Nietzsche and Adorno.
DEGREES
Ph. D. University of Pennsylvania, 1999.
M. A. University of Pennsylvania, 1996.
B. A. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1994
BOOKS
The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), 2007
ARTICLES
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"Valhalla is Burning: Theory, The Middle Ages, and Secularization," PMLA 130.3 (2015): 787-798.
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"The Epicurean Middle Ages," Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 25.4 (2013): 324-29.
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"Faustus, Confession, and the Sins of Omission," ELH 80.1 (2013): 29-59.
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"Who's Afraid of Darwin? Revisiting Chambers and Hardison…and Nietzsche,"
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 40.1 (2010):7-35. -
"What a Piece of Work is Man: Shakespearean Drama as Marxian Fetish, the
Fetish as Sacramental Sublime," Journal of Medieval and Early
Modern Studies 34.3 (2004): 643-72. -
"The Promise of History," Shakespeare Studies 30 (2002): 43-6.
BOOK CHAPTERS
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"Religion, Ritual and Myth," in A Cultural History of Tragedy, ed. Rebecca Bushnell, vol. 2, In The Middle Ages, ed. Jody Enders et al. (London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming), 81-98.
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"Holy Adultery: Marriage in The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice and The Merry Wives of Windsor," in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy, ed. Heather Hirschfeld (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 489-503.
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"Antinomian Shakespeare: Confession and English Drama across the Reformation Divide," in Shakespeare and Judgment, ed. Kevin Curran (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016), 175-94.
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"Persona," in Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History, ed. Brian Cummings and James Simpson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 591-608.
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"Barabas and Charles I," in Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe: Cultural Contexts of his Drama, ed. Robert Logan and Sara Deats (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008).
BOOK REVIEWS
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Adrian Streete, Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (forthcoming 2011).
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Kenneth Gross, Shylock is Shakespeare and The Dream of the Moving Statue in Shakespeare Studies 36 (2008): 265-77.
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John D. Cox, The Devil and the Sacred in English Drama 1350-1642 in Christianity and Literature 52.2 (2003): 262-5.
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
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The Rome Prize, Medieval Studies, American Academy in Rome, 2008-2009.
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Bundeskanzler-Stipendium, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, 1999-2000.
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Diane Hunter Prize for the best dissertation submitted in English,
University of Pennsylvania, 1999.
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