Dr. Sally Parry
Professor Emerita
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STV Stevenson Hall 333c
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- About
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Biography
Author with Robert L. McLaughlin of We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema During World War II and Broadway Goes to War: American Theater during World War II, as well as editor for over 30 years of the Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter.
Teaching Interests & Areas
American Literature of the 20th Century, Drama, Bible as Literature, Adolescent Series Fiction, World War II popular culture
Research Interests & Areas
Sinclair Lewis, American Literature between World War I and World War II, World War II popular culture, Adolescent Series Fiction
Ph D American Literature
Fordham University
Bronx, NY
Outstanding Service to the College of Education by a Member of the University Community Award
College of Education
2014
Stan and Sandy Rives Excellence in Undergraduate Education
Illinois State University
2013
Distinguished Service Award
Illinois State University
2009
Certificate of Merit
National Academic Advising Association
1995
Book Review
Beyond Rosie: A Documentary History of Women and World War Two Julia Brock, Jennifer W. Dickey, Richard JW Harker, and Catherine M. Lewis, Editors. University of Arkansas Press, 2015.
Sally Parry.
(2017), 40, 77-78, Journal of American Culture
Capturing the Women’s Army Corps: The World War II Photographs of Captain Charlotte T. McGraw Francoise Barnes Bonnell and Ronald Kevin Bullis. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2013.
Sally Parry.
(2016), 39, 241-42, Journal of American Culture
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White Emily Bernard. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.
Sally Parry.
(2014), 37, 80-81, Journal of American Culture
Book, Authored
We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during World War II
Robert McLaughlin, Sally Parry.
(2006), ix + 375, University Press of Kentucky
Book, Chapter
"Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s”
Sally Parry.
(2015), 263-84, American Literary Scholarship, An Annual 2013, Duke UP
Boundary Ambiguity and the Politics of Abortion: Women’s Choices in Ann Vickers and Kingsblood Royal
Sally Parry.
(1997), 68–79, Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism
Journal Article
“Floating above History: The Chums of Chance in Against the Day.”
Sally Parry.
Dime Novel Round-Up, 84 (1), 23-33, (2015)
Estimation of General Education Program Enrollment
Askar Choudhury, Sally Parry, Ramaswamy Radhakrishnan, Jonathan Rosenthal.
Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, 18 (4), 163, (2014)
Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s
Sally Parry.
American Literary Scholarship, 2013 (1), 263–284, (2013)
Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s
Sally Parry.
American Literary Scholarship, 2012 (1), 265–287, (2012)
Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s
Sally Parry.
American Literary Scholarship, 2011 (1), 281–302, (2011)
Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s
Sally Parry.
American Literary Scholarship, 2010 (1), 295–319, (2010)
Fraught Relationship
Sally Parry.
Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies, 38 (1), 94–95, (2008)
Opening Lines: A Congeries of Reflections
Michael Bérubé, Stephen Burn, David Cowart, Jeffrey R Di Leo, Andrew Ervin, Tom Grimes, Charles B Harris, Kit Hume, Robert McLaughlin, Lance Olsen, others.
American Book Review, 27 (2), 6–9, (2006)
" Catching the war": Jessica Swanlake’s brief liberation
Sally Parry.
Pynchon Notes, (50-51), 97–108, (2002)
The clue in the old book: Relating adolescent fiction to American culture
Sally Parry.
Exercise Exchange, 45 (2), 8-10, (2000)
The Secret of the Feminist Heroine: The Search for Values in Nancy Drew and Judy Bolton
Sally Parry.
Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls’ Series, 145–158, (1997)
Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo?: Musical Moods in the Casino Hermann Goering
Sally Parry.
Pynchon Notes, (1997)
‘You Are Needed, Desperately Needed!’: Cherry Ames in World War II
Sally Parry.
Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls’ Series, 129–44, (1997)
Upton-Sinclair-Lewis: The Crossed Paths of Two American Reformer-Novelists
Sally Parry.
Connecticut review, 16, (1994)
Gopher Prairie, Zenith, and Grand Republic: Nice Places to Visit, but Would Even Sinclair Lewis Want to Live There?
Sally Parry.
Midwestern Miscellany, 20, 15–27, (1992)
Learning to Fight the Nazis: The Education of Upton Sinclair’s
Lanny Budd, Sally Parry.
Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture, 47, (1992)
Learning to Fight the Nazis: The Education of Upton Sinclair’s Lanny Budd
Sally Parry.
Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture, 47, (1992)
The Changing Fictional Faces of Sinclair Lewis’ Wives
Sally Parry.
Studies in American Fiction, 17 (1), 65–79, (1989)
Sinclair Lewis: the darkening vision of his later novels
Sally Parry.
(1986)
Other Books of Interest
Sandra L Myres, Charles M Robinson, III, Lyle H Wright, Josephine M Bynum, Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, Christopher Sten, Scott MacDonald, Robert McLaughlin, Sally Parry, others.
JSTOR
Other
Beyond the Call of Duty: Army Flight Nursing in World War II Judith Barger. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2013.
Sally Parry.
Wiley Online Library, (2014)
’Babbitt’-’Elmer Gantry’
Sally Parry.
AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW, 27 (2), 8–8, (2006)
The last Titan: A life of Theodore Dreiser
Sally Parry.
AMER BOOK REVIEW PUBLICATIONS CENTER ILLINOIS STATE UNIV, C/O UNIT CONTEMP LITERATURE, CAMPUS BOX 4241, NORMAL, IL 61790-4241 USA, (2005)
Minnesota diary 1942-46
Sally Parry.
AMS PRESS INC BROOKLYN NAVY YARD, BLDG 292, STE 417, BROOKLYN, NY 11205 USA, (2003)
The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920-1930
Sally Parry.
JSTOR, (1997)
Strategies for Identity: The Fiction of Margaret Atwood
Sally Parry.
JSTOR, (1995)
Presentations
"Cry Havoc: The Pacific War in World War II Theater."
Sally Parry.
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2, 2015
Critical Inquiry in the First Year
John Hooker, Chad Kahl, Nancy McKinney, Sally Parry.
Innovative Partnerships for Student Learning, Working & Learning Together, Bloomington, IL, September 26, 2008
Teaching Composition and Communication as Critical Inquiry
Robert Broad, Chad Kahl, Patricia Meckstroth, Sally Parry.
Forty-Third Annual Community College and University Articulation Conference, Urbana, IL, April 18, 2007