Associate Professor
Faculty Director, CCSJ (Center for Community, Service, and Justice)
High-Impact Practices Faculty Fellow (2019-2021)
Email: smpark@loyola.edu
Phone: 410-617-2497
Office
Humanities Center 242C
Department of English
Loyola University of Maryland
4501 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210
Education
- Ph.D., University of Southern California
Courses Taught
- EN 497 Unsettling Early American Literature
- EN 392 U.S. & Caribbean Literature
- EN 390 Literature of the U.S./Mexico Border
- EN 367 First-Generation Writing: Migration and Memory in Recent American Literature
- EN 291 Race, Law, and American Literature
- EN 101 Reading Migration / Writing Migration
Publications
- The Pan American Imagination: Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth Century
Literature. New World Studies Series, University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Nominated for the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship. - "Credible Fears: The Asylum Narrative as form in Lost Children Archive" (forthcoming)
- "Free Trade Masculinities and the Literature of NAFTA,鈥� in Routledge Companion to Literature & Economics. Matt Seybold, ed. (Routledge 2018).
- "Haunting the Plantation: The Global Southern Gothic in Eric Walrond鈥檚 Tropic Death,鈥� Southern Quarterly 55.4 (Summer 2018), Special Issue: The Caribbean South.
- 鈥溾�楽ay, Is This the USA鈥�? Documenting Modernity in Cuba and the US South,鈥� Comparative American Studies 10.4 (December 2012).
- 鈥淎cademic Discourse at Havana: Pan American Eugenics and Transnational Capital in Alejo Carpentier鈥檚 隆脡肠耻别-驰补尘产补-脱!,鈥� Modern Fiction Studies 58.1 (Spring 2012).
- 鈥淢esoamerican Modernism: William Carlos Williams and the Archaeological Imagination,鈥� Journal of Modern Literature 34.4 (Summer 2011).
Areas of Specialization
- 20th-Century American Literature
- Multiethnic U.S. Literature