Dr Tim Parnell
Position held:
Senior Lecturer in English & Head of Department
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7452
Email:
j.parnell (@gold.ac.uk)
Room 410
4th Floor
Warmington Tower
Office hours:
Thurs 12.00-1.00
Appointments via Maria Macdonald only
BA (Hons) English, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, 1985; PhD, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, 1996; Lecturer in English, University of Central England in Birmingham, 1993-4; appointed Goldsmiths’ College, 1994.
Teaching
I currently convene two courses - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature and The Art of the Novel.
Areas of supervision
- Laurence Sterne
- 18th-century literature, especially prose fiction, narrative satire and the culture of sensibility
- Menippean satire and anti-encyclopedism from the Renaissance to the postmodern
Professional activities
- Member of the American and British Societies for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Contributing Editor of The Scriblerian
Research interests
My research currently focuses on Laurence Sterne and the diverse relationships between his writing and mid-eighteenth-century print culture. Other research interests in the eighteenth century include Jonathan Swift, the 'novel', satire in narrative and the place of Anglicanism in the culture of sensibility. More broadly, I am interested in the tradition of skeptical and anti-encyclopedic narrative from Montaigne and Burton to Beckett and Calvino.