dr. chris parkes
professor emeritus
cparkes@lakeheadu.ca
dr. parkes is retired as of june 30, 2024
academic qualifications:
- ph.d, english, queen's university
previous teaching/work:
1st year
- english 1015 - introduction to academic writing
- english 1031 – rhetoric
2nd year
- english 2907 & 2917 – children's literature
- english 2916 - popular fiction
3rd year
- english 3313 – eighteenth-century literature
- english 3838 – eighteenth-century women writers literature
- english 3715 – canadian children's literature
- english 3619 – african american literature
- english 3919 - young adult literature: fiction
4th year
- english 4010 – transatlantic literature
graduate courses
- english 5090 – special topics in children’s literature: child and capitalism
- englsih 5090 – special topics in children’s literature: young adult literature
- english 5231 – special topics: restoration and eighteenth century drama
- english 5790 – theories of language, literature, and culture (team taught)
research interests:
chris parkes specializes in eighteenth-century literature and children's literature. he has published articles on daniel defoe, henry fielding, charlotte bronte, and robert louis stevenson.
he is the author of:
children's literature and capitalism: fictions of social mobility in britain 1850-1914
(palgrave, 2012).