Nissa ParmarFaculty
Nissa Parmar’s research and teaching interests are emergent American literature and culture, in particular Native American, Asian American, and women’s literatures, as well as modern and contemporary poetry. She is a career teacher with an MA of Education from the University of Minnesota and an MA of Literature and a PhD from Oxford Brookes University. She has professional writing, editing, and curriculum development experience. She was lead editor of Mapping the Self: Place, Identity, Nationality, a cultural studies collection to which she contributed an essay on Adrienne Rich and demonstrated her expertise with global literatures. Her most recent work is Multicultural Poetics: Revisioning the American Canon published by SUNY Press.
Education
PhD and MA in Literature from Oxford Brookes University; MA Education from UMN; BA in Biology and Writing from Macalester
Areas of Expertise
Interests
Courses Taught
ENG-298 (Chal Sem: Native Represent)
Synonym | Title | Times Taught | Terms Taught |
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ENG-101 | Read:Environmt Humanty | 10 | 2023/SP, 2021/FA, 2021/SP, 2020/FA, 2020/SP, 2019/FA, 2019/SP, and 2018/FA |
ENG-144 | ST:Science & Lit | 4 | 2023/FA, 2023/JN, 2022/FA, and 2021/FA |
ENG-130 | Intro World Literature | 3 | 2020/FA, 2019/FA, and 2018/FA |
ENG-246 | Modernismin London/Paris | 2 | 2023/JN and 2022/JN |
ENG-344 | Whitman's Descendants | 2 | 2022/SP and 2020/SP |
ENG-281 | Postcolonial Lit | 2 | 2021/SP and 2019/SP |
ENG-114 | Girls on Film | 2 | 2021/JN and 2020/JN |
ENG-298 | Challenge Seminar: Native Rep | 1 | 2023/FA |
ENG-231 | Modern Poetry | 1 | 2023/FA |
ENG-229 | Native Representations | 1 | 2022/FA |
ENG-113 | Science & Literature | 1 | 2019/JN |