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 numerous 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).

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.

“George Foster’s Urban Dystopia.” Society for Utopian Studies Conference, Wrightsville Beach, NC, Oct. 31, 2009.

“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.)