John A Parras
Professor • Department of

To meet with me in my Virtual Office, go to https://wpunj.zoom.us/my/john.parras during my office hours or at our mutually agreed upon appointment time.
Other Interests
Selected Works
"Girl Gone Haywire: Reb Livingston's 'Bombyonder' and the State of the Novel"
"Carlo Mollino's Erotic Polaroids at Gagosian"
"Marouflage," a story with audio
"Song of Magsaysay," historical fiction
"Ride," a flash fiction
"Twitter Mind: On Jennifer Egan's 'Black Box'"
On V.S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River
"Poetic Prose and Imperialism: The Ideology of Form in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness"
"Literary Theory in the Creative Writing Workshop" (The Journal of Teaching Writing)
Degrees
Specialization
Fiction and Creative Writing; 20th-Century & Contemporary Comparative Literature
Representative Publications
"Song of Magsaysay";
Conjunctions;
2014
http://www.conjunctions.com/print/article/john-parras-c62
Awards and Honors
01/01/2004
Fellowships, Grants and Research
New Jersey State Council on the Arts: Fellowship in Fiction Writing
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Prose
Notable Courses Taught
Writing Sudden Fiction
Writing Experimental Fiction
The Prose Poem