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David Parry

@drdavidparry.bsky.social
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Tutorial Fellow in English @regentsox.bsky.social. Early modernist. Interests around English literature, history and religion 1500-1800; allegory; rhetoric; neurodiversity; literature and theology. Oxford Handbook of Allegory out now!

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David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Proud dad moment: Our 2 year old picked a book off a pile and said "John Bunyan!" He also knows "Jane Eyre" and "Green Knight" (Sir Gawain and), though sometimes gets a bit mixed up and calls it "Good Night".
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David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A taster of English at Oxford/Regent's Park College: online masterclass inc. allegory from Milton to Orwell with me and ‘Woolf, Plath and the Psychiatrists’ with Richard Lawes plus Q&A/tips on application (Friday 28th August; sign up deadline Monday 24th) www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/access-outre...
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David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Have you come across Yale's New Directions in Narrative History series? I read and loved Craig Harline's Conversions in the series - history told in a way that reads more like a novel (and looks like others in the series might be similar): www.jstor.org/bookseries/j...
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Browse books within the series New Directions in Narrative History
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David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Job opportunity in early modern English literature: We are recruiting for a nine-month college lectureship (0.5 FTE) at Regent's Park College, Oxford, to cover my teaching while I am on research leave and assist with Director of Studies role. For more info, see: www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/about-regent...
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David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Of those maps, my official research interests are mostly English occasionally touching on European. But I also do Puritans, which lets me into 'the Atlantic world'. In terms of what I would personally find interesting, pretty much any history from anywhere 🙂
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David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Mostly in England/Britain but I have broad interests so would take an interest in connections with continental Europe and North America too.
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David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Hello! Good to hear from you, and I hope you are holding up amidst the ghastliness at Exeter.
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David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Thanks! Much appreciated. I hope all is well with you.
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David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
And last but not least: @exeter.ac.uk is proposing to cut 153 jobs and putting 500 employees (including nearly all my former colleagues in Department of English and Creative Writing) at risk without clear and transparent justification. Please consider signing petition: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
There is an opportunity to come and work with me and a Cambridge colleague on an interdisciplinary project on Literary Platonism from 1500 to the Present (3 year postdoc from September 2026; application deadline 30th July) www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Research Associate (Fixed Term)
The Faculty of Divinity invites applications for a full time Research Associate in Literary Platonism: 1500 to the present. This is a fixed-term position for 36 months owing to limited funding. The ex...
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David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Oxford Handbook of Allegory is out now - 41 contributors from around the world and multiple disciplines on allegory from Plato to Inside Out: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Hello everyone! Making the move to Bluesky - I'm an early modernist with many interests, clustering around the intersection of literature, intellectual history, rhetoric and religion from 1500 to 1800. I have a few things to update everyone on.
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