Dr Fred Parker is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge; Fellow of Clare College; and Programme Director in Literature for International Summer Programmes since 2002. He teaches in the period from Milton to Byron, as well as on Shakespeare; Tragedy; and connections between literature and moral philosophy. In 2012 he was awarded a Cambridge Pilkington Prize for teaching, and finds himself dangerously attracted to Socrates’ view that true understanding comes through dialogue, not from books. Nevertheless he is author of Johnson’s Shakespeare; Scepticism and Literature; The Devil as Muse: Blake, Byron and the Adversary; and, most recently, On Declaring Love: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Jane Austen.
