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).