Dr. Aaron Parrett

 

Dr. Parrett was born in Butte, Montana and grew up in Helena. He has played bluegrass and country music in bands from Alaska to Georgia and has recorded several CDs of original songs. He began writing fiction and criticism in 2001 and has published several short stories and a book called The Translunar Narrative in the Western Tradition (Ashgate Press, 2004).

His areas of expertise include French, German, English, and American literatures. The areas in which he has published academically include history, literature, and philosophy. He has also published a handful of short stories and teaches classes in creative writing. He has currently a novel under consideration, and is working on an academic study of theology and gambling.

In addition, Dr. Parrett is accomplished on several musical instruments and has put out 3 CDs of original compositions. His music is featured on several soundtracks for independent documentary films. He is a Kentucky Colonel commissioned by Governor Paul Patton, a member of the American Literature Association, a member of the Modern Language Association, and former President of the Jim Harrison Society.

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European Literature, American Literature, Continental Philosophy, Literary Criticism and Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature

2002-2005 Board of KGPR Public Radio
2004- Present Vice President of The Montana Symposium for Science and Religion
2000- Present Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels

1996-1998 University-Wide Research Fellowship
1998 Humanities Center Dissertation Grant
1999 University Dissertation Grant
2000 Commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by Gov. Paul Patton
2001 Montana Arts Council Opportunity Grant
2002 Sister Mary Wilson Grant
2003 Faculty Development Grant

1995 Play, Neoteny, and The Gay Science, ACLA Conference at the University of Georgia
1998 Gilles Deleuze and Bill Monroe: Bluegrass Music as a Minor Literature, Marginalized Literatures Conference at the University of Montana
1998 The Pursuit of Being and Der Toderstrieb: The Passion According to G.H., 34th Annual Comparative Literature and Classics Conference at the University of California in Longbeach
2002 Transgression and Vengeance in Jim Harrison and John D. MacDonald 13th Annual American Literature Association Conference in Longbeach California
2003 Memoir, Plase Memoir, and the Fustian Bargain: Jim Harrison's Wolf versus Off to the Side 14th Annual ALA Conference in Boston, Massachusetts
2004 The Politics of the Western Dam in Harrison, McNickle, Dickey, and Abbey 15th Annual ALA Conference in San Francisco, California
2004 The Politics of the Western Dam in Harrison, McNickle, Dickey, and Abbey Western Literature Association Conference in Big Sky, Montana
2004 The Theology of Gambling, Conference on Theory and Criticism in New London, Ontario

• "The Stars Threw Down Their Spears."  The Massachusetts Review (Spring 2007)
• "Magus Thelemis" in Pataphysica IV .
• "Victorian Detective Fiction and the Fear of Degeneration." Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction.  Ibidem Press, 2007 .
• "Nuclear Winter." Pearl. (2007-forthcoming). [Short Story].
• "Raise Yourself Up." Vital Speeches of the Day. July 2006. [Baccalaureate Address].
• "Slicing Up the Circle of Knowledge." Science Fiction Studies 33 (2006).
• "Introduction." More Martian Tales by Edgar Rice Burroughs.  New York: Barnes and Noble, 2006. [Book Introduction].
• Jan.-Feb. 2005 Evelyn's Footprints Wild Blue Yonder
• 2005 Introduction Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Chessmen of Mars at Barnes and Noble
• Forthcoming 2006 D'Arcy McNikle Encyclopedia of Native North American Literature
• Forthcoming 2006 Reservation Life Encyclopedia of Native North American Literature
• Forthcoming 2006 Wind From an Enemy Sky Encyclopedia of Native North American Literature
• Winter 2005 The Philosopher's Notebooks Janus Head
• 2005 Allen Tate In Facts on File Companion to Twentieth Century American Poetry
• 2005 Richard Hugo In Facts on File Companion to Twentieth Century American Poetry
• Winter 2005 Evelyn's Footprints The Wisconsin Review 39:1
• 2005 The Alchemy of Traveling to the Moon and Five Planets Pataphysica II
• 2005 From the Earth to the Moon By Jules Verne Barnes and Noble
• Winter 2004 The Philosopher's Notebooks Janus Head 7:2
• March 31, 2004 Existential Equanimity in Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Studies
• 2004 Introduction The Martian Trilogy of Edgar Rice Burroughs Barnes and Noble
• 2004 The Translunar Narrative in the Western Tradition Ashgate Press
• Summer 2004 Montana's Worst Natural Disaster: The 1964 Flood on the Blackfoot ReservationMontana: The Magazine of Western History
• Winter 2004 Sicilian Defense Velvet Mafia 1:10
• November-03 Alternative Worlds: Burroughs's Pellucidar, Hyne's The Lost Continent, and Wells's The Are in the Air Science Fiction Studies 30:3
• 2003 Side of the Road The New Montana Story in Helena, Montana: Riverbend
• November-03 Dick's The Man Who Japed, The Zap Gun, and Counter-Clock World Science Fiction Studies 30:3
• Winter 2003 A Ride to the Infernal Regions Montana: The Magazine of Western History
• Summer 2003 Five Shades of Shadow Montana: The Magazine of Western History 53:2
• 2002 Left of the Mason Dixon Line Pizzle Records
• 2001-2002 Best Wishes Open Spaces 4:3
• 2002 Another Fine Kettle of Sturgeon Science Fiction Studies 29:3
• Spring 2001 Of Rooks and Mushrooms New Delta Review 18:2
• 2000 The Legend of Jim Collins Pizzle Records
• 1998 The Pursuit of Being and der Todestrieb in The Passion According to G.H. Genre 19
• 1997 The Sinners Independent Release