PhD (Leeds)
MA (Leeds)
MA (Cambridge)
Associate Professor
MA-GELCS Programme Director
Tel : (852) 3963 5589
Email : jayparker@hsu.edu.hk
Jay Parker received his undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and his MA and PhD from the University of Leeds. He has taught at the University of Leeds, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and The University of Hong Kong, where he was Honorary Assistant Professor in the School of English from 2018 to 2025.
His research examines the novel as a form of political, legal, and environmental thinking, with particular interests in Joseph Conrad, liberalism, poetic justice, law and literature, postcritique, and environmental humanities. He is the author of Conrad’s Liberal Fiction: Reading the Political Novel, under contract with Edinburgh University Press, and co-editor of Joseph Conrad and Postcritique: Politics of Hope, Politics of Fear. His work has appeared in Textual Practice, Law and Literature, and The Conradian.
Dr Parker has received two Faculty Development Scheme grants from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, including “Poetic Justice and the Anglophone Novel, 1678–1928.” His work has been recognised by the Juliet McLauchlan Prize, the Bruce Harkness Young Scholar Award, and the Zdzisław Najder Essay Award. He is a General Editor of The Conradian and serves on the Committee of the Joseph Conrad Society UK. He led the development, accreditation, and re-accreditation of the MA in Global English Literary and Cultural Studies.
Dr Parker teaches in literary studies and related areas of cultural studies, including modernism, the novel, film and literature, environmental humanities, research methods, and digital humanities.