Department of English

Profile
Scott Peeples (PhD, Louisiana State University 1994) teaches courses in early (colonial/18th-century) and nineteenth-century American literature, as well as freshman writing. He has published two books on Edgar Allan Poe and several essays on nineteenth-century American literature. He currently serves as co-editor of the journal Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation; and as editor of the book series Literary Criticism in Perspective (Camden House). His current scholarship focuses on Civil War literature and cultural trauma.

Recent Publications, Presentations, Conferences, and Readings

“Nowhere Man: The Problem of Poe and Place.” Nexus (Publication of the
Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos) 2009.1: 85-90.

“That Wasn’t in the Book: How the Movies Made Poe the Master of the
Macabre.” Plenary Address. Symposium: The Adventures of Edgar Allan Poe
through Time and Cultures. Moscow, Russia, April 24, 2009.

“Poe and Pain.” Plenary Address. Edgar Allan Poe International ConferenceUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, February 3, 2009.

"Where Were Douglass and Melville on April 15, 1865?" Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 10.2 (2008): 37-49.

"Teaching Poe the Magazinist." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry and Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (Modern Language Association, 2008).

The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe (Camden House, 2004; paperback, 2007.)