Dr E. Parker
Eleanor Parker, MA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon)
College Lecturer in Italian at St Anne's College
College Lecturer in Italian at Christ Church (MT 2011 only)
Address: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HS
Email: eleanor.parker@st-annes.ox.ac.uk
Research
Dr Parker's research interests include death and mourning in literature, Giuseppe Ungaretti, late style and old-age creativity, Italian visual culture and critical theory (psychoanalysis). She completed her AHRC-funded doctoral thesis entitled 'The poetics of loss and mourning in the later poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti' in 2009, and is now working on a number of research projects, including one on trauma in Margherita's Guidacci's poetry and another on mourning and poetic language in Patrizia Valduga.
Teaching
Undergraduate
Italian language and literature, including modern Italian literature (FHS Papers VIII and XI, especially 20th-century Italian poetry) and Prelims courses on the History of the Sonnet, Giuseppe Ungaretti and Modern Italian Narrative.
Publications
Book chapters and articles
‘A Way of Sorrows for the Twentieth Century: Margherita Guidacci’s Via Crucis dell’umanità’, in The Power of Death: Perceptions of Death in the Western World, eds. Maria-José Blanco and Ricarda Vidal (Forthcoming 2012, Berghahn)
‘‘Sto muta sull’orlo della vita’: the ‘dialogue with the dead’ in Patrizia Valduga’s Requiem’, in Borders and Boundaries (Forthcoming, 2012)
‘S’incomincia per cantare/E si canta per finire’: Giuseppe Ungaretti’s last works and old-age creativity’, in Age and Ageing in European Literature (Forthcoming, 2012)
‘L’infanzia ho sotterrato/Nel fondo delle notti’: Towards a Definition of Melancholy Subjectivity in Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Il Dolore’, in About Face: Depicting the Self in the Written and Visual Arts, eds. Lindsay Eufusia, Elena Bellina and Paola Ugolini (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), pp.143-164
‘‘Beyond the Ivory Tower’: the postgraduate perspective on Developing Learning and Teaching’, in Illuminatio (Oxford: The Oxford Learning Institute, University of Oxford, 2009), pp.2-3. Available online at http://www.learning.ox.ac.uk/files/file/Illuminatio_2009.pdf
Reviews
‘After Words: Suicide and Authorship in Twentieth-Century Italy’, Elizabeth Leake (Forthcoming 2012, Journal of Modern Italian Studies)
‘M. Lerro. L'io lirico nella poesia autobiografica’, Annali d’Italianistica (Forthcoming, Fall 2011).
‘Ferrara, Emily. The Alchemy of Grief. New York: Bordighera Press, 2007. Pp. 95.’ Forum Italicum, 42, No. 2 (Fall Issue 2008), pp.447-9.
Dr Parker also has a keen interest in outreach and access and works as Schools Liaison & Outreach Officer at St Anne's alongside her academic commitments.