Dr Eric Parisot
Lecturer in English
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
My research interests centre on the literature and culture of the British long eighteenth century, especially themes associated with death, the Gothic, and the history of emotions. My current project examines the public emotions elicited by representations of suicide in eighteenth-century print culture and drama.
My research interests centre on the literature and culture of the British long eighteenth century, especially themes associated with death, the Gothic, and the history of emotions. My current project examines the public emotions elicited by representations of suicide in eighteenth-century print culture and drama.
I completed my BA (Hons)/BSc at the University of Melbourne and Monash University before earning an MPhil (With Distinction) in Romanticism and the Forms of Modernity at the University of Glasgow. Since completing my PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2009, I've been the recipient of a number of research grants, awarded by (amongst others) the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH, University of Edinburgh), the Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH), and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800). After a short stint as a lecturer at the University of Queensland, I arrived at Flinders in 2015 to take up an ongoing post as Lecturer in English.
BA (Hons)/BSc, MPhil (Glasgow), PhD (Melbourne)
External:
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society (2016)
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library (2016)
Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (2015-16)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Queensland (2014)
Humanities Travelling Fellowship, Australian Academy of the Humanities (2011)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities - University of Edinburgh (2009)
Internal:
Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities (FIRtH) - Research Theme Coordinator (2017)
Establishment Research Grant (2016-17)
Flinders University 50th Anniversary Project (2016)
Medium Research Grant (2015)
Director of Studies - English and Creative Writing
British long eighteenth century, including:
- Mid-eighteenth century literary culture and “pre-Romanticism”;
- Gothic fiction, especially up to 1830;
- Cultures of sensibility and sentimental literature;
- British Romanticism and its legacy.
Literature and Death, especially:
- Representations of, and responses to, suicide;
- Associated emotions (such as grief, despair, and melancholy);
- Constructions of literary afterlives;
- Associated genres and modes, such as elegies, epitaphs, “graveyard poetry,” eulogies, obituaries, and suicide notes.
Literature and Religion, including:
- Judaeo-Christian mythology in literature (especially Satan, the Wandering Jew, Cain, and Judas);
- Poetic / divine inspiration
- Literature and theology (especially eschatology and soteriology)
Broadly speaking, British literature from 1700 to 1900, particularly:
- Gothic fiction
- Sentimentalism and sensibility
- Romantic poetry and fiction
- Jane Austen
- Literature and melancholy
- Literature and suicide
- Elegiac traditions
- Associate Investigator - ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800)
- Honorary Research Fellow - School of Communcation and Arts, University of Queensland
- Member:
- American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS)
- Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ANZSECS)
- British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (BSECS)
- British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
- Romantic Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA)
- Literature - English
- Poetry
- Suicide
- Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Gothic
- Jane Austen
- Romantic-period Literature
- Suicide in Culture
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