Joshua Parker
Publications
Books
 Austria and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters 1865-1933. Lit Verlag (edited volume with
introduction, with R. Poole), 2014, 230 pp.
 Ecrire son lecteur: L'évolution de la deuxième personne. Éditions Universitaires Européenes, 2012,
341 pp.
 Metamorphosis and Place. Cambridge Scholars Press (edited volume with introduction, with L.
Tunkrova and M. Bakari), 2009, 269 pp.
Articles and Chapters
 “War and Union in Little America: The Space of Hawthorne’s Rome.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
Review 40.2, 2014.
 “Writing in Transit: H.D., Stefan Zweig and the Other Side of America.” Austria and America:
Cross-Cultural Encounters 1865-1933. Lit Verlag. J. Parker and R.J. Poole, eds., 2014 (179-194).
 “Emerging Vectors of Narratology: Towards Consolidation or Diversification? A
Response.” Enthymema 9, 2013.
 “Absence as Presence, Presence as Absence: Museological Storytelling in Berlin.” Narrative
Works 3(1) 2013.
 “’This is our Armageddon’: Berlin in Postwar American Fiction.” Amaltea: Journal of Myth
Criticism 5, 2013.
 “Hemingway’s Lost Presence in Baldwin’s Parisian Room.” Hemingway and the Black
Renaissance. Ohio State UP. C. Scruggs and G. Holcomb, eds. 2012.
 “Eros, Thanatos: Amsterdam in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction.” Journal of Transnational
American Studies 4(2) 2012.
 “In their own words: On Writing in Second Person.” Connotations 21(2-3) 2012.
 “Resonance: A Reader’s Perspective on Figurally Colored Narration.” Amsterdam International
Electronic Journal for Cultural Narratology 1(6) 2011.
 “Simultaneous Narratives: Re-Storing Jewish-American Memory in Berlin.” In Cityscapes in
the Americas and Beyond. J.M. Gurr and W. Rauss, eds. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011.
 “Berlin’s ‘meaning’ in American Fiction.” Austausch: German Studies Online Journal 1(1) 2011.
 “A Venice all of Evil: James on Ruskin’s Veils.” In Ruskin, Venice and 19th Century Cultural
Travel. Bricole. K. Hanley and E. Sdegno, eds. 2011.
 “Adapting American Visual Rhetoric in Post Cold War Bulgaria.” Present Tense: A Journal of
Rhetoric in Society 1(2), 2011.
 “The Fiction of Russell Banks: Where Culture, Geography and Metalepsis Intersect.”
Language and Literature 19(3) 2010.
 “Where you’re supposed to be: Apostrophe and Apocalypse in Palahniuk.” Chuck Palahniuk:
American Monsters and Literary Mayhem. Routledge. C. Kuhn, ed. 2009.
 “Reading Turkish Maritime Painting: Changes in Visual Narratives in the Early Turkish
Republic.” The International Journal of the Humanities 6(6) 2008.
 “Symbolic Geography in the Novels of Henry James.” Urbana 8, 2006. Reprinted in The
Geography, Politics and Architecture of Cities, Edwin Mellen P, 2012.
 “African Americans in Paris” and “The Place of African Art in American Museums.”
Encyclopedia of African American Literature. Greenwood P. H. Ostrom and J.D. Macey, eds.
2005.
 “’Words cant never be the same as what it was’: R.M. Berry Maps the Struggle toward Mimesis.”
Cahiers Charles V 38, 2005.
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“Gertrude Stein and the Self-Marketing Memoir.” In-Between: Essays and Studies in Literary
Criticism 14(1) 2005.
“Global Advertising’s Failure in Bulgaria.” symplokē 9(1-2) 2001.
Conference Presentations, Invited Lectures
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Invited lecture: “Resonance: Metalepsis at its most Discreet.” Linguistics Meets Literature:
Indexicals in Narrative Texts. Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, December 5, 2014.
 “’Off into azure distance’: American Fiction’s Island Berlin.” Space Oddities. AAAS,
University of Graz, November 21-23, 2014.
 “Exploring Postmemory Abroad.” ESSE. Kosice, Slovakia, August 29-September 2, 2014.
 “Spatial Readings of Fiction, Postmemory and Challenging the Ways of Knowing.” Narrative
Knowing: Narrative Matters, University Paris VII, June 2014.
 “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: La parole empêchée chez Jonathan Safran Foer.” La
parole empêchée. University of Bordeaux 3, March 5-7, 2014.
 “Freudianism and its (Communist) American Discontents: Abraham Polonsky and The World
Above.” Austria and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters 1933-1955. Stefan Zweig Centre,
Salzburg, January 24-25, 2014.
 “The air of some enchanted island: Seaside Berlin in American Fiction.” Traveling Narratives:
Modernity and the Spatial Imaginary. University of Zurich, November 29-December 1, 2013.
 “There was still beauty here: The African-American Experience of Postwar Berlin.” American
Utopias. Austrian Association for American Studies, Salzburg, November 8-10, 2013.
 “How American Is It.” Images. Austrian Association of University Teachers of English,
Salzburg, April 26-27, 2013.
 “Spatial Metaphors in Postclassical Narratology: A Compensation for Setting’s own
‘Content?’” Emerging Vectors of Narratology: Toward Consolidation or Diversification? European
Narratology Network, Paris, March 30, 2013.
 “James Baldwin and Hemingway.” Hemingway Society round table, MLA, Boston, January
2013.
 “American Movements: Stefan Zweig’s Pre-War Reflections on America.” Austria and
America: Cross-Cultural Encounters 1865-1933. University of Salzburg, December 6-7, 2012.
 “Re-storing Postmemory in Berlin.” Narrating Spaces – Reading Urbanity. University of
Hamburg, September 6-8, 2012.
 “War and Union in Little America: Hawthorne’s Rome.” Conversazioni in Italia: Emerson,
Hawthorne, and Poe. Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, Poe Studies Association and Nathaniel
Hawthorne Society, Florence, June 8-10, 2012.
 “Resonance: Multimodality.” Working with Stories. European Narratology Network, University
of Southern Denmark, March 10, 2011.
 Invited Lecture: “An Introduction to Narrative Theory.” Haliç University, Istanbul, March 2,
2011.
 “Landscaping the Foreign Self.” Landscapes of the Self: Identity, Discourse, Representation.
University of Evora, November 24-26, 2010.
 “Projecting America: Berlin in American Fiction.” Simultaneity, Multiplicity and Chaos in
Cityscapes in the Americas and Beyond. University of Bielefeld, June 25-26, 2010.
 “Registering Self-Image: Amsterdam in American Fiction.” Imagining Amsterdam: Visions and
Revisions. University of Amsterdam, November 18-21, 2009.
 “Resonance: Metalepsis at its most discreet.” International Society for the Study of
Narrative, University of Birmingham, June 3-6, 2009.
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“Appropriating European Spaces: James’s Aesthetic Claims and Emotional Links.” Henry
James’s Europe: Cultural (re)appropriations and transtextual relations. European Society of Jamesian
Studies, American University of Paris, April 3-5, 2009.
Invited Lecture: “Projecting Authoritarianism onto Berlin in Postwar American Fiction.”
Theorizing Authoritarianism in the American Century. Koç University, Istanbul, May 1, 2009.
“Adapting American Images in Post Cold War Eastern Europe.” Adapting America/America
Adapted. American Studies Association of Turkey, Bogazaçi University, Istanbul, October 810, 2008.
“’A Venice all of Evil’: Cooper, Twain and James and a Venetian stereotype.” Ruskin and
Nineteenth Century Venice. Lancaster University, The Ruskin Centre and the Università degli
Studi Ca’ Foscari, Venice, September 25-27, 2008.
“Paris: The Long Dream.” International Richard Wright Centennial. American University of
Paris, June 19-20, 2008.
“Editing Out the Self: Writing in Second Person.” Shaping Readers: Selection and Editing.
University College Cork, April 2-4, 2008.
“Little America: Hawthorne and Twain Writing on Rome.” Ex-Centric Narratives. Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, March 15-17, 2007.
“Landscaping the Self: Projecting the Foreign.” The Self in North American Culture. Bilkent
University, Ankara, November 30 - December 1, 2006.
“Border Crossings in Narratology: Metalepsis in Contemporary American Fiction.” Building
Bridges, Crossing Borders. Fatih University, Istanbul, May 24-26, 2006.
“Hemingway’s Lost Presence in Baldwin’s Parisian Room: Mapping Black Renaissance
Geographies.” MLA, Washington, D.C., December 2005.
“Hollywood on the Black Sea: American Images Abroad.” European Perspectives on American
Studies. John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Berlin, February 2005.
“James’s Paris: A Symbolic Geography.” Henry James Today. Henry James Society and Yale
University, American University of Paris, July 2002.
“How Thou lost the battle, but won the war: A Sociolinguistic Approach to a Pronoun’s
Disappearance.” Baskent University, Ankara, March 2002 (paper, closing address).
“Martin Buber and Chuck Palahniuk: Looking Past Postmodernism.” Postmodern Practices.
University of Erlangen, November 2001.
“Paris in Americans: Americans in Paris.” Americans in Paris, Paris in Americans. University of
Salford and the Mona Bismark Foundation, Paris, July 2001.
Reviews and Interviews (selection)
Le narrateur: introduction à la théorie narrative, Sylvie Patron. Relais d’information sur les sciences de la
cognition (CNRS), 2009.
Christopher Rice, Pride, September 2000.
Claude Closky, This City Paris, winter 1999.
“Reading the Zeitgeist,” The Stranger, April 1995.
“Dog Years: Paul Monette and Tony Kushner,” The Stranger, March 1995.
Translations (selection)
La Monnaie (Belgian National Opera): programs (2005-2007).
Editions du Patrimoine: Chateau de Blois (56 pp.), Chateau de Chenonceau (65 pp.) (2003).
Flammarion: sections of J. Tuillier’s History of Art (525 pp.); H. Zerner’s Renaissance Art in
France (474 pp.); Orlan, with D. Dusinberre (247 pp.).
Musée des Arts Décoratifs and Musée de Publicité: catalogue, brochures (2001-2002).
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Conference Organization
 Austria and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters 1955-2015. University of Salzburg, March
2015. Conference Organizer, with R. Poole.
 Cold War Complications - Voices from the Center. European Association for American Studies
conference, the Hague April 3-6, 2014, workshop co-chair, with L. Mazzari; AAAS
delegate to EAAS board meeting.
 Austria and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters 1933-1955. University of Salzburg, Stefan
Zweig Centre, January 24-25, 2014. Conference organizer, with R. Poole.
 Austria and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters 1865-1933. University of Salzburg,
December 6-7, 2012. Conference organizer, with R. Poole.
 Metamorphosis and Place, Fatih University. Conference organizer, with J. Basourakos and L.
Tunkrova, May 2007.
 WICE Paris Writer’s Conference, 1999-2000. Assistant in organization.
updated 2014