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  Parks, John G.
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NameJohn G. Parks
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Education

* Ph.D., American Studies, University of New Mexico
* Rel.D., Claremont School of Theology
* B.A., Political Science, University of California Berkeley

Teaching Interests

* American Literature 20th Century
* Contemporary American Fiction

Research Interests

* Contemporary American Fiction

Selected Publications

* The Fiction of E.L. Doctorow. New York: Crossroad/Continuum, 1991.
* American Short Stories Since 1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
* 'The Need of Some Imperishable Bliss: John Updike's Toward the End of Time.' Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. LVII, 2, Winter 2005, pp. 151-157.
* 'Edward Lewis Wallant: in The Holocaust Novel edited by Efraim Sicher.' The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 299, 2004, pp. 348-353.
* 'Mining and Undermining the Old Plots: Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo.' The Centennial Review, 34, 1 (Winter 1995): 163-170.
* 'The Politics of Polyphony: The Fiction of E.L. Doctorow.' Twentieth-Century Literature, 37 (Winter 1991) 4: 454-463.
* 'Unfit Survivors: The Failed and Lost Pilgrims in the Fiction of Robert Stone.' CEA Critic, 53 (Fall 1990) 1: 52-57.
* 'The Grace of Suffering: The Fiction of Edward Lewis Wallant.' Studies in American Jewish Writing, 5 (1985): 111-118.
* 'Chambers of Yearning: Shirley Jackson's Use of the Gothic.' Twentieth Century Literature, 30, (Spring 1984) 1: 15-29.
* 'The Terrors of Freedom: Religious Crisis in Recent American Fiction.' The Southwest Review, 67, (Spring 1982) 2: 182-191.

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Professor Parks is working on an essay of Robert Stone's last two novels and essays on other recent American writers.

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