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Dr. Sarah E. Parker is an Associate Professor of English, Department Chair for Literature, Languages, and Culture (LLC), and Director of the Center for Gender + Sexuality at Jacksonville University. She also serves as Secretary of the Faculty on the Faculty Executive Committee and Coordinator of Literature, Language, and Culture in the School of Fine Arts and Humanities. Parker holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a focus in Renaissance Studies and the History of Medicine from the University of North Carolina, an M.A. in French Renaissance Literature from Middlebury College and Paris III La Sorbonne Nouvelle, an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.A. in French and English from the University of North Carolina.

Parker's academic interests include Renaissance Literature and the History of Medicine, reading publics, the history of reading and the book, seventeenth-century science in England and the Royal Society, popular error as an early modern medical genre, Thomas Browne, ancient Greek medicine, animal studies, feminist criticism, Native American literature with a focus on Louise Erdrich, Girolamo Cardano, and French Huguenots in Florida. Her key publications feature co-editing Using Commonplace Books to Enrich Medieval and Renaissance Courses (ARC Humanities Press, 2023), a forthcoming chapter “ ‘Put a Mark on the Errors’: Seventeenth-Century Medicine and Science” in History of Science (with Alice Leonard), and “Error (Popular Error)” in Routledge Resources Online – The Renaissance World. She has presented papers at SAMLA 2023 on “Marie the Grumpy Abbess: A Feminist Re-imagining of Translatio Studii in Lauren Groff’s Matrix” and at the Shakespeare Association of America workshop on “Shakespeare, Storytelling, Ethical Leadership.” Parker earned the 2023-2024 Professor of the Year award, the 2023 Faculty Woman of the Year recognition, and a tuition scholarship for “The Handwriting & Culture of Early Modern English Manuscripts” at the University of Virginia's Rare Book School. She hosted panels on the Dobbs reversal of Roe v. Wade and the right to privacy via the Public Policy Institute, acted as an academic consultant for the multimedia art project Line & Language, and completed the Podcasting for the Humanities course at the National Humanities Center.