Rate My Professor Jo Parnell

Parnell's career highlights include significant editorial contributions to cross-disciplinary studies on family representations in literature, film, drama, television, and screen. Key publications feature edited collections: Representations of the Mother-in-Law in Literature, Film, Drama, and Television (Lexington Books, 2018); New and Experimental Approaches to Writing Lives (Macmillan International Higher Education, 2019); The Bride in the Cultural Imagination: Screen, Stage, and Literary Productions (Lexington Books, 2020); Cultural Representations of the Second Wife: Literature, Stage, and Screen (Lexington Books, 2023); and Writing Australian History On-Screen: Television and Film Period Dramas "Down Under" (2023). Notable chapters include 'Translating and conveying the damaging childhood in Our Kate' in Catherine Cookson Country: On the Borders of Legitimacy, Fiction and History (Ashgate, 2012), selected as a central piece in this pioneering textbook. Journal articles comprise 'Literary (creative nonfiction) docu-memoir: a different way of writing a life' (European Journal of Life Writing, 2014), 'Report on the Inaugural Asia-Pacific Chapter Conference' (2016), and 'Translating metaphor: Understanding experience' (Humanity, 2012). Creative works such as 'The houses that cried' (2012) further demonstrate her versatility. Currently, she develops a sole-authored collection of creative short stories from real-life experiences alongside forthcoming edited volumes.