Professor Michael Parker

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Departmental Tutor

Biography

Professor Michael Parker has worked as a tutor for the University of Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education since 2016. His career involved initially teaching and serving as the Head of English in three secondary institutions and, subsequently, at universities in the UK in north-west England. In addition, he has held Visiting Professor positions in Europe and the United States.

He is currently in the process of completing Seamus Heaney: Legacies, Afterlives, a critical study of the poet's middle and late career, and the translation. He was elected a Fellow of the English Association in 2011.

Research interests

Professor Parker’s research interests includes modern and contemporary poetry, fiction and drama and their historical contexts, drawing on a long-standing interest in Irish Literature; Northern Irish Literature, History and Politics; Colonial/ Postcolonial Literatures; Contemporary British Literature; Polish Poetry and Translation.

Publications

Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet. Macmillan/ University of Iowa Press, 1993.

The Hurt World: Short Stories of The Troubles. Editor. Blackstaff Press, 1995.

Postcolonial Literatures: A New Casebook. Co-editor with Roger Starkey. Macmillan,1995.

Contemporary Irish Fictions: Themes, Tropes, Theories. Co-editor with Liam Harte. Macmillan, 2000

Northern Irish Literature 1956-1975: The Imprint of History, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Northern Irish Literature 1975-2006: The Imprint of History, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Irish Literature Since 1990: Diverse Voices. Co-editor with Scott Brewster, Manchester University Press, 2009.

William Trevor: Revaluations. co-editor with Paul Delaney, Manchester University Press, 2013.

Milosz: A Biography, by Andrzej Franaszek, co-translator and editor, Harvard University Press, 2017.