Dr Deven Parker
- Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow (English Literature)
email:
Deven.Parker@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
She/her/hers
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0467-5294Biography
I joined the School of Critical Studies as a Leverhulme Early Career / LKAS Fellow in 2024 to carry out research on my project, 'Performing Authorship: Theatre, Print, and Intellectual Property.' I'm originally from the U.S. where I received my Ph.D. at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2019 before joining Queen Mary University of London in 2020 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the British Academy 'Romantic Melodrama' project. My research is concerned with the media history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Research interests
Broadly, my research is concerned with the impact of new media and technologies on creative expression. I'm a specialist in literature and theatre of the Romantic period,with additional interests in media and technology studies, copyright, and book history. I recently completed my first book, Revolutions in Communication (under contract with Stanford University Press) on the rise of long-distance communication media during the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars and its influence on Romantic writing. My new project at Glasgow examines how divergent copyright regimes between the theatre and book trade shaped Romantic writers’ careers and led to modern conceptions of intellectual property. I'm excited to collaborate with colleagues at the School of Critical Studies as well as those working at the Copyright and Creative Economy Centre for this project. In addition, I'm at work on an AI digitization project, in collaboration with Prof. Joemon Jose in the School of Computing Science at Glasgow and Prof. Michael Gamer at Penn, to make publicly searchable the largest collection ever assembled of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century playbills
Publications
2025
Parker, Deven 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0467-5294, Zheng, Kaiwen, Gamer, Michael and Jose, Joemon M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9228-1759
(2025)
Unlocking 18th- and 19th-century Playbills with AI: An Experiment in Qualitative Data Categorization.
Umanistica Digitale,
(Accepted for Publication)
2023
Parker, Deven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0467-5294
(2023)
Between media: harlequinade and melodrama in print.
In: Piccitto, Diane and Robinson, Terry F. (eds.)
The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830.
University of Michigan Press.
ISBN 9780472132881
Parker, Deven M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0467-5294
(2023)
Telegraphic supremacy in Maria Edgeworth’s “Lame Jervas”.
In: Girten, Kristin M. and Hanlon, Aaron R. (eds.)
British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830.
Series: Aperçus: histories texts cultures.
Bucknell University Press: Ithaca, NY, pp. 123-138.
ISBN 9781684483990
(doi: 10.36019/9781684483990-008)
2022
Garner, Michael and Parker, Deven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0467-5294
(2022)
Keats, incorporated: social authorship and the making of a brand.
Essays in Romanticism, 33(2),
pp. 137-156.
(doi: 10.1080/10509585.2022.2043530)
2020
Parker, Deven M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0467-5294
(2020)
Precarious correspondence in The Woman of Colour.
Essays in Romanticism, 27(2),
pp. 135-151.
(doi: 10.3828/eir.2020.27.2.4)
2019
Parker, Deven M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0467-5294
(2019)
Epistolary form in the age of the post office.
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 59(3),
pp. 625-645.
(doi: 10.1353/sel.2019.0028)
Articles
Parker, Deven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0467-5294, Zheng, Kaiwen, Gamer, Michael and Jose, Joemon M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9228-1759
(2025)
Unlocking 18th- and 19th-century Playbills with AI: An Experiment in Qualitative Data Categorization.
Umanistica Digitale,
(Accepted for Publication)
Garner, Michael and Parker, Deven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0467-5294
(2022)
Keats, incorporated: social authorship and the making of a brand.
Essays in Romanticism, 33(2),
pp. 137-156.
(doi: 10.1080/10509585.2022.2043530)
Parker, Deven M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0467-5294
(2020)
Precarious correspondence in The Woman of Colour.
Essays in Romanticism, 27(2),
pp. 135-151.
(doi: 10.3828/eir.2020.27.2.4)
Parker, Deven M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0467-5294
(2019)
Epistolary form in the age of the post office.
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 59(3),
pp. 625-645.
(doi: 10.1353/sel.2019.0028)
Book Sections
Parker, Deven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0467-5294
(2023)
Between media: harlequinade and melodrama in print.
In: Piccitto, Diane and Robinson, Terry F. (eds.)
The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830.
University of Michigan Press.
ISBN 9780472132881
Parker, Deven M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0467-5294
(2023)
Telegraphic supremacy in Maria Edgeworth’s “Lame Jervas”.
In: Girten, Kristin M. and Hanlon, Aaron R. (eds.)
British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830.
Series: Aperçus: histories texts cultures.
Bucknell University Press: Ithaca, NY, pp. 123-138.
ISBN 9781684483990
(doi: 10.36019/9781684483990-008)
Prior publications
Article
Michael Gamer, Cassidy Holahan, Deven Parker (2024) The Romantic Melodrama Project: Or, Playbills! Performance!! Metadata!!! Studies in Romanticism Deven Parker. ISSN 2330-118X (doi: 10.1353/srm.2024.a943149)
Deven Parker (2019) Romanticism’s Radical Connectivity Keats-Shelley Journal Deven Parker.
Grants
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, 2024-2027.
Stephen Copley Research Award, British Association for Romantic Studies, 2022.
Pforzheimer Award, Keats-Shelley Association of America, 2020.
McMaster-ASECS Fellowship, McMaster University, 2019.
W. M. Keck Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2017.
Teaching
At Glasgow, I've given lectures on "Inventing the Moderns" in English Literature (spring 2025) and "Theatre and Society" in Theatre Studies (spring 2025). I've also taught seminars on Scottish theatre history for the MA program in Theatre Studies, and led a section of the 2B "Literature and the Body" course. I've also taught literary theory to learners at Barlinnie Prison as part of the SCS Prison Teaching initiative.
Professional activities & recognition
Prizes, awards & distinctions
- 2022: Stephen Copley Research Award (British Association for Romantic Studies)
- 2020: Pforzheimer Award (Keats-Shelley Association of America)
Research fellowships
- 2024 - 2027: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship
- 2019 - 2019: McMaster-ASECS Fellowship, McMaster University
- 2017 - 2018: W. M. Keck Fellowship, Huntington Library
Grant committees & research advisory boards
- 2024: Keats Shelley Association of America, Pforzheimer Grants