Coilin Parsons is an associate professor in the Department of English in Georgetown College and a member of the India Initiative Faculty Advisory Committee.

International activities include:

• Taught at the University of Cape Town.
• Published The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature (Oxford University Press, 2016).
• Co-edited Relocations: Reading Culture in South Africa (University of Cape Town Press, 2015) with Imraan Coovadia and Alexandra Dodd.