Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
aplawson@sewanee.edu
B.A. Centre College; M.Phil, Ph.D, Cambridge University
Parker Lawson is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Sewanee: The University of the South. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Centre College with majors in Spanish and International Studies, and a minor in History. He then lived and worked in Madrid, Spain as a Fulbright Scholar prior to moving to the United Kingdom, where he studied for master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Cambridge. Parker completed an MPhil in Modern European History as a Rotary Global Grant Scholar. Parker was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a PhD in Hispanic Studies under the direction of Brad Epps, and he recently defended his doctoral thesis, "Between Tradition and Transgression: Education, Culture, and (Inter)national Pedagogies in Spain (1857–1931)."
Parker has published scholarly articles on anarchist education, the cultural and political legacies of Spanish Krausism, and he is currently finalizing an article that conducts a post-colonial critique of the anti-oligarchical writings of Joaquín Costa. Active in the field, Parker has coordinated numerous seminars and conference panels, including a series at Cambridge, organized with Dr. Rodrigo García Velasco, on "Spanish Intellectuals from Krause to Post-War Britain" that received funding from the Instituto Cervantes, German Foreign Office, and the Residencia de Estudiantes. Edited essays from this seminar were recently published in the Boletín de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza. With Dr. Anna Kathryn Kendrick (NYU-Shanghai), Parker is presently co-editing a special issue of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies on "Education in the Global Hispanophone," which will bring together leading scholars from across subfields of Hispanic Studies to conduct a critical appraisal of the relationship between (critical) pedagogy and textual and cultural criticism. Having lived in Barcelona and Lleida, Parker also has considerable knowledge of, and scholarly interest in, Catalan literature, history, and culture.
Pedagogically, Parker has numerous years of experience of secondary and tertiary education practiced in the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom. At Cambridge, he conducted undergraduate and postgraduate seminars and lectures, and taught hundreds of hours of "supervisions," or small-group tutorials that define the Oxbridge undergraduate model. He also supervised numerous undergraduate research projects, including capstone theses. In spring 2020, Parker completed Cambridge's Teaching Associates' Programme and was admitted to the Higher Education Academy as an Associate Fellow.
