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Dr. Sarah Parker
Professor of English
Director, Center for Gender + Sexuality Chair
Department of Literature, Language, and Culture
Email address sparker6@ju.edu
Telephone number (904) 256-7249
Office location Council Bldg., 128
Education
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature with a focus in Renaissance Studies and the History of Medicine, University of North Carolina
- M.A., French Renaissance Literature, Middlebury College and Paris III La Sorbonne Nouvelle
- M.A., Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- B.A., French and English, University of North Carolina
Research Interests
- Renaissance Literature and History of Medicine
- Reading Publics/History of Reading/History of the Book
- The History of Seventeenth-Century Science in England, The Royal Society
- Popular Error (as early modern medical genre); Thomas Browne
- Ancient Greek Medicine
- Animal Studies
- Feminist Criticism
- Native American Literature, Louise Erdrich
- Girolamo Cardano (sixteenth-century Italian doctor, author, and polymath)
- French Huguenots in Florida