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Education:
BA in English, Religion (Sewanee: The University of the South, 2014); MA in English (George Washington University, 2019)

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Field:
20th Century American Literature, Disability & Narrative Studies

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Biography:
William “Parker” Stoker is a PhD candidate and instructor of English at the University of South Carolina, currently residing in Dallas, TX. His published work appears in Literary Matters, Screem Magazine, and a forthcoming collection of essays on Ernest Hemingway. His scholarship and teaching have received several awards, including the 2020 Meringoff Prize for Non-Fiction, the 2020-2021 Cile Moise Award for Excellence in Teaching, and a 2022 Breakthrough Graduate Scholar Award from the University of South Carolina. A descendant of Bram Stoker, he also assists his family in writing and editing for the Bram Stoker Estate. He is writing his PhD dissertation on representations of traumatic brain injuries in the work of several American modernists. He earned his BA magna cum laude from Sewanee and his MA with distinction from George Washington University. He is a native South Carolinian and an avid tennis player.

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Publications:
   • “Dantean Influence in Hemingway and Tate.” All Hem’s Literary Friends: Expanding Connections Between Hemingway and Other Authors, edited by Sean C. Hadley, Vernon Press. Forthcoming.
   • “Nosferatu: 100 Years of Terror,” with Dacre Stoker. Screem Magazine, no. 40, 2022, pp. 2-4.
“In the Midst of Plenty”: Introduction and Discussion Questions. The Carolina Reader, edited by Chelsea D. Hawthorne and Kathleen A. Carroll, Macmillan, Fall 2021 ed., pp. 351-52.
   • “Hemingway’s Dante Revisited: In Our Time and the Mythical Method.” Literary Matters, vol. 13, no. 1, Fall 2020.
   • “Introduction.” Dracula, by Bram Stoker, 1897, Illuminated ed., Ethereal Visions Publishing, 2020, pp. 8-11.

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Conference Presentations & Other Addresses:   • 
“‘The superman of tomorrow lies at the feet of you common men this afternoon’: Concussion & the American Hero from Saving Private Ryan to the MCU,” Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, & Writers Conference, University of Houston, Houston, TX, Oct. 13-14, 2023
   • “‘mysteries which men can only guess at’: Faith & Doubt in Bram Stoker’s Fin-de-Siècle Novels,” Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, & Writers Conference, University of Houston, Houston, TX, Oct. 13-14, 2023
   • “Keynote Address,” Cartter Scholarship Finalists Weekend, Baylor School, Chattanooga, TN, February 18, 2023
   • “Hemingway’s Dante Revisited: In Our Time and the Mythical Method,” Meringoff Prize Reading, Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, & Writers Conference, Yale University, Oct. 20, 2022
   • “Hemingway’s Mythical Method: A Significantly New Way of Reading In Our Time,” 19th International Hemingway Conference, Sheridan, WY, July 17-23, 2022
   • “Dantean Influence in Hemingway and Tate,” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC, January 6-9, 2022
   • “Queer Grief, Queer Time in Emma Donoghue’s Hood,” American Conference for Irish Studies, Southern Regional Chapter, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Hickory, NC (Virtual Conference), March 19, 2021
   • “In Our Time’s Wagner Apple and the Fisher King,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Virtual Conference, November 13, 2020
   • Chaired Panel: “Relations and Transformations in Hemingway’s Fiction,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 16, 2019
   • “‘Really Married to It’: Dantean Love and Fishing in ‘Big Two-Hearted River,’” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 16, 2019
   • “What is Great Literature? The Case for In Our Time,” Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, & Writers Conference, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, October 5, 2019