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Profile: Susan (Scotti) Parrish
Title: Associate Professor
Degree: Ph.D., Stanford 1998
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Research Interests
Primary Interests
Colonial and early national British-American literature and culture, 1585-1830; early modern Atlantic world; history of science; travel literature; non-fiction forms; correspondence networks; environmental writing and criticism; writers of the U.S. south between the wars, especially Faulkner and Hurston.
Secondary Interests
Material culture; ecology; natural disturbances and disturbance theory
Publications
American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (OIEAHC/UNCP, 2006). Winner of the Jamestown
“Environment, Knowledge, and Slave Portraiture in Colonial Surinam: Considering Two William Blake Engravings in Stedman’s 1796 Narrative” in eds., Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Angela Rosenthal, Invisible Subjects? Slave Portraiture in the Circum-Atlantic World (1660-1890) (collection under submission at University of Chicago Press
“Diasporic African Sources of Enlightenment Knowledge” in eds., James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew, Atlantic Knowledges: Science and Empire in the Americas , 1500-1800 (Routledge, 2007).
Introduction for the republication of Robert Beverley, The History and Present State of Virginia (London
“Scientific Discourse” in ed. Kevin J. Hayes, Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature (Oxford UP, 2007).
“William Byrd II and the Crossed Languages of Science, Satire, and Empire in British America” in eds., Ralph Bauer and José Antonio Mazzotti, Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas
“Women’s Nature: Curiosity, Pastoral, and the New Science in British America ,” Early American Literature 37.2 (UNCP, July 2002), 195-238.
“The Female Opossum and the Nature of the New World ,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, Vol. LIV, No. 3 (July 1997), 475-514 (lead article). This article was awarded the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture’s Richard L. Morton Award for 1997 and an Honorable Mention for the South-Eastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ Percy Adams Prize for 1998.
American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World
Additional Info
Directors of Undergraduate Studies, 2007-2008
Director of the Honors Program, 2005-2008
Advisory Board, Atlantic Studies Initiative
Elected member, Executive Committee, MLA Division, 'American Literature to 1800,' 2007-2012
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