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).