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, Associate Professor

Areas of interest		Contact Information
- American Studies -19th-century print and popular culture - Civil War literature - Edgar Allan Poe - composition and rhetoric		Office: 22B Glebe St. #201 (843) 953-1993 peepless {at} cofc.edu
Profile Dr. Peeples received his PhD from Louisiana State University in 1994. He 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. His current work deals with Civil War literature and cultural trauma.
Recent Publications, Presentations, and Conferences "Where Were Douglass and Melville on April 15, 1865?" Forthcoming in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. "Teaching Poe the Magazinist." Forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching the Poetry and Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (Modern Language Association). "Juke Box Heroes: Poe and 'Outis' Discuss Dylan and Timrod." American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 2007. The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe. (Camden House, 2004; paperback, 2007.)