Personal Page: Pamela Corpron Parker

Education

Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon, 1994
M.A. in English from Middlebury College, Bread Loaf School of English, 1989
M.A. in English from Eastern Washington University, 1989
B.A. in English from Whitworth University, 1981

Corpron Parker studied at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, M.A., University of Oregon, Ph.D., and as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Lilly Program for Humanities and the Arts, Valparaiso University. She teaches mostly British literature and women's studies courses. In recent years she has developed a study program in Thailand, where she lived as a child. Click here to visit Whitworth's off-campus studies site. In addition to teaching, Corpron Parker's passions include gardening, hiking, and boating with her family on the beautiful lakes of northern Idaho. She is cofounder and president of the British Women Writers Association and is currently at work on a book on literary tourism, which gives her an excellent excuse for regular trips to England.

Additional Publications:

"Harriet Martineau." Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Ed., Abigail Burnham Bloom. New York: Greenwood Publishing Group, (June 2000).
"'The Power of Giving': Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth and the Politics of Benevolence." The Gaskell Journal. Vol. 13 (1999).
"A New Kind of Biography: Elizabeth Gaskell's Construction of Female Identity in The Life of Charlotte Bronte" in The Public Muse: Literature, Religion and the Renewal of the Public Sphere. London: Macmillan (2001).
"Elizabeth Gaskell's Capitalist Fantasy in North and South." Victorian Newsletter. No. 91 (Spring 1997).
"Fictional Philanthropy in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and North and South." Victorian Literature and Culture. Vol. 25, No. 2 (1997).
"Good Woman, Good Work: Victorian Philanthropy and Women's Biography." The Cresset: A Review of Literature, Arts, and Public Affairs. Vol. LIX, No. 4 (April 1996).
"Introduction." Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Vol. 19, No. 4 (1996). Special Issue on the Conference on Writing Women/Writer Power.
"Reclaiming a Lost Tradition: Writing Women's Literary History." Newsletter for the Conference on the 18th- and 19th-Century Women Writers of Britain. Vol. 1, No. 1 (1995).