Dr. Geoff Parker

Geoff Parker holds an MA in Philosophy and English Literature from the University of Edinburgh and a DPhil in Literature with Philosophy & Sociology from the Universität Flensburg. He taught at Edinburgh University, the Bildungswissenschaftliche Hochschule Flensburg and the University of South Denmark before appointment as Senior Lecturer in English at the Universität Flensburg in 1999. He teaches modern English, Irish and Scottish literature and cultural research with particular interest in writings of the 'long' Scottish Enlightenment from Hume and Thomson to Byron and Ferrier, eighteenth and twentieth century British fiction, and modern poetry.

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Research Fields

Philosophy of David Hume
History of Scottish Philosophy
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Culture

Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Prose, Poetry & Criticism
Modern Fiction & Poetry
Irish Literature in English

Scottish Enlightenment Studies
British & Post-British Cultural Studies

Current research interests include:

Hume's Treatises IV & V
Philosophical ideas in C20th Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, St Andrews
Concept of criticism and problems of genre during the Enlightenment
Historiographical Paradigms of British Literature
Poetry of Derek Mahon

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Publications
Edited volumes

Geoff Parker (ed.): Derek Mahon - Poetry in Translation. Englisches Seminar: Universität Flensburg 2009. Seminarheft (auf Deutsch), 62 S.

General Editor: Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften, Nr. 19. Historische Medienangebote für Kinder- und Jugendliche, ed. Günter Helmes, Flensburg 2008

General Editor : Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften, Nr. 18. Minoritäten differenziert betrachtet, ed. Elin Fredsted & Günter Helmes. Flensburg 2007

General Editor: Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften, No. 17. Mündliche Kommunikation - Interaktion - Mediennutzung, ed. Marianne Polz. Flensburg 2004
ISBN: 3-924834-31-8

General Editor: Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften, No. 16. Kinder, die uns herausfordern: Das überaktive Kind und sein soziales Umfeld, ed. Ines Heindl. Flensburg 2004
ISBN: 3-924834-30-X

Geoff Parker & Michael Löbig (eds.): Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften, No. 15 : Kritik. Abenteuer der Dialektik, Flensburg 2003, 128 S.
ISBN: 3-924834-29-6

Geoff Parker & Hartwig Eckert (eds.): Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften, No. 12 : Die Idee einer Universität. Flensburg 2001, 132 S.
ISBN: 3-924834-24-5

Commissioning Editor: George Elder Davie / Hugh MacDiarmid R. Ross (ed.):
Cencrastus: Scottish & International Literature Arts and Affairs, No. 25, Edinburgh 1987.

Geoff Parker & Cairns Craig (eds.): Fiction: Robert Jenkins / Ron Butlin
Cencrastus: Scottish & International Literature, Arts and Affairs, No. 24, Edingburgh 1986

Geoff Parker (ed.): Reconstructions / George Washington Wilson
Cencrastus: Scottish & International Literature Arts and Affairs, No. 23, Edinburgh 1986.

Geoff Parker (ed.): Neal Ascherson's Devolution Diary / Ian Hamilton Finlay Retrospective.
Cencrastus: Scottish & International Literature Arts and Affairs, No. 22, Edinburgh 1986.

Geoff Parker (ed.): Scottish Utopianism / John Cage / Scottish Feminism
Cencrastus: Scottish & International Literature Arts and Affairs, No. 21, Edinburgh 1985.

Geoff Parker (ed.): Diverse Voices.
Cencrastus: Scottish & International Literature Arts and Affairs, No. 20, Edinburgh 1985.

Geoff Parker (ed.): Towards a Cultural Politics / Régis Debray / John Anderson
Cencrastus: Scottish & International Literature Arts and Affairs, No. 19, Edinburgh 1984.

Geoff Parker (ed.): Scotland and the Spanish Civil War / Alasdair Gray
Cencrastus: Scottish & International Literature Arts and Affairs, No. 18, Edinburgh 1984.

Geoff Parker (ed.): Peripheries and the World System.
Cencrastus: Scottish & International Literature Arts and Affairs, No. 17, Edinburgh 1984.

Geoff Parker & Shiela Hearn (eds.): Writers in Exile / Douglas Dunn / Kenneth White
Cencrastus: Scottish & International Literature Arts and Affairs, No. 16, Edinburgh 1983.

D. Phil. Dissertation:

Enlightenment and Scotophobia: Studies in Smollett and Scottish Culture, 1755 - 71. Universität Flensburg, 1999

Selected Articles & Translations, 2000-

'Interkulturelle Kommunikation in verwandten Sprachen und Kulturen' (mit Hartwig Eckert), in: Kommunikationskulturen - intra und interkulturell , hrsg. Christa Heilmann. Röhrig: Saarbrücken 2005, 51 - 59

'Jenseits des Tweed. Die Abenteuer der deutsch-schottischen Dialektik', in: Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften, Nr. 15. Flensburg 2003, 31 - 39

'John Anderson's 'Sokrates als Erzieher'' (mit J. Holle), in: Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften, Nr. 15. Flensburg 2003, 115 - 124

Reception of the Scottish Enlightenment in Germany: Six Significant Translations, 1755 - 1782. 7 vols, (hrsg.) Heiner F. Klemme. Bristol: Thoemmes Press 2000. In: Eighteenth Century Scotland, No. 17. Newark NJ, Spring 2003, 40 - 41

Hauke Brunkhorst: 'European Constitutionalism: Functional, Normative, Revolutionary Perspectives', mit H. Brunkhorst. Arena Paper No.14/03, Oslo University 2003

K. Christiansen & B. Bohlmann: 'Kalkstahl: Eine Methode zur Blockteilung und Direkten Berechnung relevanter Parameter in der Schiffsentwurfsphase' (with U. Bischoff-Parker), in: Schiff & Hafen Nr. 10 / 02, Seehafen Verlag: Hamburg 2002

'The Idea of the University of the Scottish Enlightenment', in: Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften, Nr. 12. Flensburg 2001, 49 - 59.

Appropriate Technology Forum, Nos. 1 - 15, Glücksburg 1996 - 2002. Appropriate Technology Association of Germany (with Ulrike Bischoff-Parker)

20 further published articles and translations, 1990 - 2005

Selected Talks & Papers, 2000 -

'Hume's Treatise of Human Nature as Unfinished Project of Modernity'. (Guest Lecture, European Ideas and Scientific Rationality Seminar, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Flensburg, 13. June 2007)

'Analysis and Dialectics in Hume's Treatise I' . (Guest Lecture, European Ideas and Scientific Rationality Seminar, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Flensburg, 20. June 2007)

'Editorial Policy and the Institution of Criticism in Adam Smith's Edinburgh Review and Tobias Smollett's Critical Review '. (Research paper, Institutions and Oppositions of Enlightenment Workshop Series, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 25. October 2005)

'Conditions of Cultural Revival: Hume's Philosophy of Culture'. (Research workshop, Empire, Philosophy and Religion ECSSS Conference, Central European University, Budapest, 24. June 2005)

'O Choille gu Bearradh: Gaelic-English Cultural Translation by Somhairle MacGill-Eain and Seamus Heaney'. (Research circle paper, 'Translation as a Means to Interpret Literary and Non-Literary Texts', Universität Flensburg, 5. July, 2004)

'Musik und Texte zur Shakespeare-Zeit', with Julia Goll (Reading, Deutsche Kulturgesellschaft Flensburg, Kloster zum Heiligen Geist, Flensburg, 11. November 2003)

'Scottish Literary Representations of England and Scotland in the 1760s'. (Paper, ECSSS Conference, College of Charleston und Citadel College, Charleston SC., 11. April 2003)

'The Loch Ness Monster's Song: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Scottish Poetry'. (Workshop, Institute for English and Danish, Syddansk Universitet, Kolding, 21. October 2002)

'The Cultural Politics of Enlightenment in Adam Smith's Edinburgh Review'. (Conference paper, 'Places of Exchange: Magazines, Journals and Newspapers in British and Irish Culture, 1688 - 1945', Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 27. July 2002)

'Scotophobia and the Scottish Enlightenment'. (Conference paper, 'Union and Cultural Identities in Eighteenth-Century Scotland', ECSSS & Centre for the History of Ideas in Scotland, University of Edinburgh, 4. July 2002)

'Hegel und Marx jenseits des Tweed: Abenteuer der Dialektik in Schottland'. (Symposium paper, 'Kritik: Abenteuer der Dialektik', Institut für Philosophie, Universität Flensburg, 21. June 2002)

'Citizen-Scholars or Euro-Actors? Universities and their Students in the New Europe'. (Staff Workshop, Knox College, Ill. USA, 20. February 2002)

'The Idea of the University of the Scottish Enlightenment'. (Symposium paper, 'Die Idee einer Universität', Universität Flensburg, 13. July 2001)

'Archeology of Violence in Seamus Heaney's 'Punishment'. (EMU lecture, Stranmillis University College and St. Mary's University College Belfast, Universität Flensburg, 15. January 2000)

'Democratic Intellect: Educational Ideal in the Tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment'. (Research seminar paper, Institut für kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung i. G., Universität Flensburg, 7. December 1999)

Selected Reviews & Shorter Articles:

'Thatcherism at Work', in: Edinburgh Review , Edinburgh 1988.

Annie Cohen-Solal: Sartre - A Life, Cape: London 1987, in: The Scotsman Weekend. September 1987

René Wellek: History of Modern Criticism, Vol. 5: English Criticism, 1900 - 1950, Cape: London 1987, in: The Scotsman Weekend, July 1987

Neal Ascherson: The Struggles for Poland, London 1987, in: The Scotsman Weekend, May 1987

Mary Beckett: Give Them Stones, Bloomsbury: London 1987, in: The Scotsman Weekend. April 1987

Kenneth White: Atlantica - mouvements et méditations. Grasset: Paris 1986, in: The Scotsman Weekend, March 1987

'Loyalists Begin Battle Royal', in: The Scotsman, February 1987

David Graham & Peter Clarke: The New Enlightenment, Macmillan: London 1986, in: The Scotsman Weekend, January 1987

'World-Systems Theory', in: Cencrastus No. 17, Edinburgh 1984

'An Interview with Brian Moore' (with Bernard MacLaverty), in: Cencrastus No. 14, Edinburgh 1983

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Research Fellowships

Research Fellow WS 2006, Centre for the History of Ideas in Scotland Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh

'David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1739 - 40) as unfinished project of classical modernity'

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Editorial Boards

Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften (Flensburg)
Editorial Board and General Editor, 2003-09

Cencrastus: Scottish & International Literature, Arts and Affairs (Edinburgh)
Editorial Board, 1981 - 93
Editor, 1981 - 87

Edinburgh Student Publications Board (Polygon)
1982 - 83

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Membership

Hume Society, 1999 -
Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society, 2000 -
Scottish Studies International Network, University of Glasgow, 2005 -

Thesis Supervision pdf

BA 5 - Independent Studies: Project WS 2011/2012

Written Project: Literatures of English

• Supervisor: Geoff Parker
  
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