Rate My Professor Nicola Parsons

Parsons is the author of Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), which examines gossip's role in literary and social discourse. She co-edited Reading the Represented Past: History and Fiction from 1700 to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) with Kate Mitchell, featuring essays on historical fiction's evolution. Notable publications also include her article 'Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1760–1794)' in The Library (2022) and contributions on visualizing ideas in eighteenth-century contexts. She received an Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant (DP110101380) as Chief Investigator in 2011, funding $96,371 for research at the University of Sydney. Parsons has been awarded a Walpole Library Fellowship for 2023–24 and recognized for supervision excellence, including the SUPRA Research Supervisor Award in 2023 and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisor of the Year in 2024. She supervises PhD students, including those in joint programs with institutions like the University of Glasgow, and has organized academic events such as the David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies. Parsons engages publicly through The Conversation, authoring guides to eighteenth-century texts like Fantomina.