Dr Eric Parisot

Senior Lecturer

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

place Humanities (257)
GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Since completing my PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2009, I've been fortunate enough to spend to conduct postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH, University of Edinburgh), and to teach at the University of Queensland, before arriving at Flinders in 2015 to take up an ongoing post in English.

My research interests remain primarily centred upon eighteenth-century literature and culture (up to and including Romanticism), literary responses to death, and the Gothic. My first book, Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition (Ashgate, 2013), is the first long study of this devotional, proto-Gothic and pre-Romantic poetic mode.

Currently, I’m writing a short monograph on Jane Austen and Vampires (Palgrave), and co-editing a collection of essays on Graveyard Gothic (Manchester UP). I’m also slowly and steadily working towards a monograph examining the modern role of literary representations (and the public emotions they elicit) in changing understandings of suicide in the latter half of the British eighteenth century.

Qualifications

BA (Hons)/BSc, MPhil (Glasgow), PhD (Melbourne)

Honours, awards and grants

External:

Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society (2019)

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:

Vice Chancellor's Excellence in Teaching Award (2021)

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Award (2020)

Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities (FIRtH) - Research Theme Coordinator (2017)

Establishment Research Grant (2016-17)

Flinders University 50th Anniversary Project (2016)

Teaching interests

Broadly speaking, British literature from 1700 to 1900, particularly:

  • Gothic literature
  • Literature, death and suicide
  • History of Emotions
  • Sentimentalism and sensibility
  • Jane Austen
  • British Romanticism
Topic coordinator
ENGL2140 English Literature: Evolutions and Revolutions
ENGL2146 Gothic: Terror, Horror & the Supernatural
Supervisory interests
British Romanticism
British eighteenth-century literature
Constructions of literary afterlives
Elegiac traditions
Elegies
Gothic fiction
Gothic literature
Graveyard poetry
Judaeo-Christian mythology in literature
Literary melancholy
Literary responses to death
Literature and death
Literature and religion
Literature and suicide
Literature and theology
Literature, British eighteenth century
Romantic literature
Sensibility and sentimentalism
Suicide notes
Higher degree by research supervision
Current
Principal supervisor: William Blake (1)
Associate supervisor: Delarivier Manley (1), Nineteenth-Century Psychological Fiction (1), Jane Austen (1)
Completion
Associate supervisor: The Brontes (1), Walter Scott (1)
Expert for media contact
Literature - English
Poetry
Suicide
Eighteenth-Century Literature
Gothic
Jane Austen
Romantic-period Literature
Suicide in Culture
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Media expertise
  • Literature - English
  • Poetry
  • Suicide
Interests
  • Eighteenth-Century Literature
  • Gothic
  • Jane Austen
  • Romantic-period Literature
  • Suicide in Culture