Associate ProfessorNicola Parsons

Nicola Parsons is Associate Professor in Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sydney. Her research expands the possibilities for studying the eighteenth-century novel by showing its productive relation with less canonical prose forms, such as the secret history, the periodical, and the miscellany. She is the author of Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Palgrave, 2009), and editor of Reading Historical Fiction: The Revenant and Remembered Past, with Kate Mitchell (Palgrave, 2013), and Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century (Delaware UP, 2021) with Jennifer Milam. She serves on the editorial board of series with Cambridge University Press and Brill, and her work has been supported by major grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and fellowships in the UK and US. An award-winning teacher and HDR supervisor, Dr Parsons is passionate about building academic communities that are diverse and inclusive.