Kirsten Parkinson
Associate Professor of English
Director, Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature
A.B., Harvard University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California
Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies, University of Southern California
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Courses
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Twentieth-Century British Literature
- World Literature
- Angels and Whores: Gender in Victorian Literature
- Jane Austen, Then and Now
- Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins
- Creeps and Castles: Gothic Fiction
- Literature of War
- Visions of India
- Literary Perspectives on Women
- Masculinity, Femininity and the Body
- Ghouls and Goblins: The Cultural Meanings of Monsters
- Writing about Food
Research Interests
- Victorian literature
- The novel
- Food writing
- Gender studies
- Postcolonial literature
- War literature
Publications
- "'What do you play, boy?': Card Games in Great Expectations" in Dickens Quarterly (June 2010)
- "The Pot Roast Is Political: Domestic Ideology in Victorian and World War II Cookbooks" in Midwestern Folklore (Fall 2003)
- Entries on D.H. Lawrence, Mark Twain, Leisure, and Suffragism in American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia (Sage Publications, 2003)
Recent Presentations
- Keynote speaker, International Dickens Fellowship Annual Conference, Cleveland (August 2009)
- Guest on "Around Noon," WCPN (NPR), Cleveland (January 2009)
- "'What do you play, boy?': Card Games in Great Expectations," Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (April 2007)
- "Viewer, I Married Him: Translating Jane Eyre to the Silver Screen," Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, San Diego (March 2005) and Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference, Chicago (April 2005)
- Invited panelist, "Medical Ethics: From Frankenstein to the 21st Century," Discussion associated with the exhibit "Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature," Cuyahoga County Public Library at Parma Community General Hospital, Parma, Ohio (September 2003)
- Guest on "Around Noon," WCPN (NPR), Cleveland (July 2003)
- "The Pot Roast Is Political: American Cookbooks and World War II," Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque (February 2002)
Awards
- Vencl-Carr Award for Teaching Excellence (2009)
- Paul E. Martin Award (2004, 2006)
- Michael Starr Award for outstanding service and potential (2004)
- NOCHE Award for Excellence in Teaching, Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education (2004)
Current Project
Article on representations of Bertha Mason in film adaptations of Jane Eyre.
