Scott Peeples - Department of English - College of Charleston- Department of English - College of Charleston- Department of English - College of Charleston- Department of English - College of Charleston- Department of English - College of Charleston- Department of English

Scott Peeples, Professor

Areas of interest		Contact Information
- American Studies - Edgar Allan Poe - Civil War Literature - Print Culture		Office: 22B Glebe St. #201 (843) 953-1993 peepless {at} cofc.edu
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 "Where Were Douglass and Melville on April 15, 1865?" Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 10.2 (2008): 37-49. "Teaching Poe the Magazinist." Forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching the Poetry and Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (Modern Language Association) "Unsafe Distance: Rereading Herman Melville?s 'Donelson.'"American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 2008. "The Civilians' War: Letters from Charlestonian Women, 1861-1865." (Co-presented with Kara Mirmelstein.) Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Williamsburg, VA, April 2008. The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe (Camden House, 2004; paperback, 2007.)