Melissa Parker

Assistant Professor of English and Intern Coordinator
Norris Hall
P843-863-5513 / Emparker@csuniv.edu

CREDENTIALS

English, University of South Carolina, PhD
English, University of ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥, MA
English, College of ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥, BA

Melissa Parker

Melissa Pluta Parker is an assistant professor of English at ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥ and also the intern coordinator on campus. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the College of ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥, where she majored in English and minored in both mass media communications and dance, before pursuing a master’s degree there. She then went on to earn her PhD in English from the University of South Carolina, where she focused on late nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature. Her research interests include gender issues, literary realism, sentimental literature, and early modernism. Dr. Parker has two children and a dog named Maisie.