Tutor information
Michael Parker
Michael Parker has worked as a tutor for Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education since 2016. His career has involved teaching in secondary schools and at universities in the UK, Europe and the United States. His nine published books to date explore modern and contemporary poetry, fiction and drama and their historical contexts, drawing on a long-standing interest in British, Irish, European and Postcolonial Writing. He is currently completing Seamus Heaney: Legacies, Afterlives, a critical study of the poet's middle and late career.
Courses
Irish fiction has acquired a high international profile since the 1990s, by reflecting the major transformations that reshaped the culture. This course examines four novels that illuminate the present by re-reading the past on both sides of the border.