Sue Parman

Sue Parman is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology (Ph.D., Rice University) and an award-winning poet, playwright, essayist, and fiction writer.

In academia she chaired the department at California State University Fullerton for ten years and was awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Science Foundation, including a million-dollar grant to construct a new anthropology research and teaching facility at CSUF. She conducted research in the Gaelic-speaking Outer Hebrides and is the author of Scottish Crofters (2nd edition 2005), Dream and Culture: An Anthropological Study of the Western Intellectual Tradition, and (with Jacob Pandian) The Making of Anthropology: the Semiotics of Self and Other in the Western Tradition. She edited Europe in the Anthropological Imagination and The Study of Japan in the Behavioral Sciences (with Edward Norbeck), and her articles have appeared in The American Anthropologist, Folklore, Ethnos, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, Museum Anthropology, Cross-Cultural Research and other venues (see http:/​​/​​anthro.fullerton.edu/​​sparman).

Since moving to Oregon in 2009, she has received numerous writing awards, including four first-place awards from the Oregon State Poetry Association and Oregon Writers Colony, two Kay Snow Awards from Willamette Writers, and Honorable Mentions from Best Travel Writing Annual Solas Awards and Oregon Humanities. Her short stories, plays, and essays have appeared in Voice Catcher, Lumina, Journeys, The Elephant-Ear, The Los Angeles Times, and Songs of Innocence. Produced plays include “The House of Ravens,” “North of Sixty-Three Degrees,” “The Red Tide,” and “Queen Victoria’s Secret” (which was performed in Portland’s Fertile Ground New Play Festival in 2011, the Portland Central Library in 2012, published in Voice Catcher, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize). Her chapbook The Thin Monster House was published by Finishing Line Press in 2012.

Sue Parman is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and an award-winning poet, playwright, essayist, and fiction writer.

In academia she chaired the department at California State University Fullerton for ten years and was awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Science Foundation, including a million-dollar grant to construct a new anthropology research and teaching facility at CSUF. She conducted research in the Gaelic-speaking Outer Hebrides and is the author of Scottish Crofters (2nd edition 2005), Dream and Culture: An Anthropological Study of the Western Intellectual Tradition, and (with Jacob Pandian) The Making of Anthropology: the Semiotics of Self and Other in the Western Tradition. She edited Europe in the Anthropological Imagination and The Study of Japan in the Behavioral Sciences (with Edward Norbeck), and her articles have appeared in The American Anthropologist, Folklore, Ethnos, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, Museum Anthropology, Cross-Cultural Research and other venues (see http:/​/​anthro.fullerton.edu/​sparman).

Since moving to Oregon in 2009, she has received over ten writing awards, including four first-place awards from the Oregon State Poetry Association and Oregon Writers Colony, two Kay Snow Awards from Willamette Writers, and Honorable Mentions from Best Travel Writing Annual Solas Awards and Oregon Humanities. Her short stories, plays, and essays have appeared in Voice Catcher, Lumina, Journeys, The Elephant-Ear, The Los Angeles Times, and Songs of Innocence. Produced plays include “The House of Ravens,” “North of Sixty-Three Degrees,” “The Red Tide,” and “Queen Victoria’s Secret” (which was performed in Portland’s Fertile Ground New Play Festival in 2011, published in Voice Catcher, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize). Her chapbook The Thin Monster House was published by Finishing Line Press in 2012.