Prof. PARKER David

	Title	Research Professor
	Tel	2609 7001
	Office	Fung King Hey 329
	Profile	B.A. Dip.Ed. (Adelaide), B.A. (Flinders), DPhil (Oxford)
	E-mail	dparker@cuhk.edu.hk

Administrative Post

• Director of Research Centre for Human Values

Research Interests

• 19th and 20th century fiction, British and Australian; ethics and literature; autobiography; creative writing.

Selected Publications

• The Self in Moral Space: Life Narrative and the Good.?Cornell University Press,?007.

• "Inhabiting Multiple Worlds: Auto/biography in an (Anti-) Global World", introduced and edited, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Hawaii University Press: volume 28, number 1, Winter 2005, 1-192.

• Renegotiating Ethics: Literature, Philosophy, Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 260 (introduced and edited with Jane Adamson and Richard Freadman). [Image]

• Shame and the Modern Self, Australian Scholarly Publishing, pp. 160, 1996 (introduced and edited with Rosamund Dalziell and Iain Wright). [Image]

• Ethics, Theory and the Novel, Cambridge University Press, pp. 218,1994. [Image]

• The Mighty World of Eye: Stories/Anti-stories, (stories and meta-fictional commentary), Simon and Schuster/New Endeavour Press, pp. 194, 1990. [Image]

• Building on Sand, (novel) Angus & Robertson, pp. 263, 1988. (shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1989; reissued as Collins Imprint paperback, 1990.) [Image]

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Research Projects

• A project on life narrative and the good, examining autobiography from the perspective of moral philosophy (with a special emphasis on the work of Charles Taylor.)

• A project on the reading and writing of short stories.

CUHK interview

An inaugural lecture delivered on 31 Jan 2001