Scott Peeples
Professor and Associate Chair
Office Hours: Wednesday, Friday 9:00-12:00
Phone: 843.953.1993
E-mail: peepless@cofc.edu
Scott Peeples 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).
Education
1994 - Ph.D., American Literature, Louisiana State University
1989 - M.A., English, College of William and Mary
1985 - B.A., American Studies, Georgetown University
Research Interests
- American Studies
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Nineteenth-century literature
- Print culture
Publications
"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 Conference University 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.)
