SCOTT PEEPLES
Academic Employment
2001-2006 Associate Professor of English, College of Charleston.
1996-2001 Assistant Professor of English, College of Charleston.
1995-1996 Assistant Professor of English, Niagara University.
1994-1995 Visiting Instructor of English, College of Charleston.
Education
Ph.D. in English, Louisiana State University, May 1994.
M.A. in English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 1989.
B.A. in American Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 1985.
Courses Taught at the College of Charleston
AMST 200: Introduction to American Studies
ENGL 101: Composition and Literature
ENGL 102: Composition and Literature
ENGL 207: Survey of American Literature to the Present
ENGL 342: Colonial and Revolutionary American Literature
ENGL 343: American Renaissance, 1830-1870
ENGL 349: American Novel to 1900
ENGL 395: Special Topics (Literature of the American Revolution and Early Republic)
ENGL 395: Special Topics (Nineteenth-Century American Poetry)
ENGL 395: Special Topics (International Poe)
ENGL 517: Special Topics (Nineteenth-Century American Poetry)
ENGL 523: Nineteenth-Century American Literature I – Romanticism
ENGL 700: Seminar (Whitman, Melville, and the Question of American Identity)
ENGL 700: Seminar (Poe and His Worlds)
HONS 105 and 106: Composition and Literature
Books
The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004.
Edgar Allan Poe Revisited. New York: Twayne's United States Authors Series (Simon and Schuster/ Macmillan), 1998.
Articles
"Teaching 'The Sot-Weed Factor' Out of Historical Context." Early American Literature 40.2 (2005): 351-55.
"Love and Theft in the Carolina Lowcountry." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture and Theory 60.2 (2004): 33-56.
"Poe's ‘Constructiveness' and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher.'" The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002. 178-90.
"‘The Mere Man of Letters Must Ever Be A Cypher': Poe and N. P. Willis." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 46 (2000): 125-47.
"‘The Servant Is As His Master': Western Exceptionalism in Caroline Kirkland's Magazine Fiction." ATQ: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 13 (1999): 305-316.
"Life Writing/Death Writing: Biographical Versions of Poe's Final Hours." Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 18 (1995): 328-38.
"Peter Taylor's Fictional Memoirs." Southern Quarterly 30 (1991): 42-51.
Other Publications
"Teaching Poe the Magazinist." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry and Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe. New York: MLA, forthcoming.
"The Raven." American History through Literature, 1820-1870. New York: Scribner's, 2005. 953-57.
"Major Editions and Landmarks of Poe Scholarship: A Bibliographic Essay." The Oxford Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000. 209-31.
"An Interview with Tim O'Brien." Illuminations 16 (2000): 45-52.
"Women's Clubs." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995. 931-33.
Editor and Compiler, "International Poe Bibliography, 1992-1993." Poe Studies 27 (1-2): 5-27. 1994.
Editor and Compiler, "International Poe Bibliography, 1989-1991." Poe Studies 25 (1-2): 10-36. 1992.
Book Reviews
Meredith L. McGill, American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853. Edgar Allan Poe Review 4 (2003): 51-55.
Thomas N. Baker, Sentiment and Celebrity: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame. Resources for American Literary Study 27 (2001): 132-34.
Shawn Rosenheim and Stephen Rachman, eds., The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe Studies Association Newsletter 26 (1998): 8-9.
John T. Irwin, The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story. Criticism 36 (1994): 620-22.
Jeffrey Meyers, Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy. Journal of American History 80 (1993): 1082-83.
Michael Lund, America's Continuing Story: An Introduction to Serial Fiction, 1850–1890. American Periodicals 3 (1993): 114-15.
John Tebbel and Mary Ellen Zuckerman, The Magazine in America: 1714–1990. American Literature 64 (1992): 864-65.
Academic Conference Presentations
"Where Were Douglass and Melville on April 15, 1865?" Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: A Sesquicentennial Celebration, New Bedford, MA, June 24, 2005.
"Poe on Stage in Post-Reconstruction America." Modern Language Association, San Diego, CA, December 27, 2003.
"Teaching ‘The Sot-Weed Factor' Out of Context." American Literature Association, Cambridge, MA. May 24, 2003.
Panelist, "Teaching Poe in the Undergraduate Survey." International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, Baltimore, MD. October 5, 2002.
"The Southern Face of Edgar Allan Poe." Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Lafayette, LA. March 15, 2002.
"‘And dis all cum ob de goole-bug!': Poe and Postcolonial South Carolina."
British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Savannah, GA. February
23, 2001.
"Poe in Bed: Sex, Biographical Criticism, and Tales of Dying Women."
Modern Language Association, Washington, DC. December 29, 2000.
"Poe, Marie Bonaparte, and the Limits of Biographical Criticism." International Poe Conference, Richmond, VA. October 9, 1999.
"‘I Might Term Him a Magazinist': Poe and N. P. Willis." American Literature Association, Baltimore, MD. May 28, 1999.
"Nathaniel Parker Willis: Inklings of Aristocracy." American Literature Association, San Diego, CA. May 30, 1998.
"Declaring In Dependence: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass." "Re-Covering the Past" Conference, Binghamton, NY. April 17, 1998.
"‘When Manuscript Can Be Read It Is Never Worth Reading': Poe's Satires of Literary Success." Modern Language Association, San Diego, CA. December 27, 1994.
"Searching for a Weapon in Invisible Man." LSU/TAMU Conference on Languages and Literature, Baton Rouge, LA. February 12, 1994.
"Life Writing/Death Writing: Biographical Versions of Poe's Final Hours." Modern Language Association, New York, NY. December 30, 1992.
"Writing Against Story: Hemingway and the Little Review." Philological Association of Louisiana Annual Conference, Lafayette, LA. March 16, 1991.
"Reconstructing the Artistic Experience: William Carlos Williams' ‘Pictures from Brueghel.'" Annual English Graduate Intercollegiate Seminars, Houston, TX. February 16, 1991.
Panels Chaired at Academic Conferences
"The 9/11 Commission Report as Literature." American Literature Association, Boston, MA. May 29. 2005.
"New Research on Poe's ‘Tales of the Folio Club.'" American Literature Association, Long Beach, CA. May 31, 2002.
"Poe and Boston." American Literature Association, Cambridge, MA. May 26, 2001.
"Theorizing Conspiracy in Early America." Society of Early Americanists Biannual Meeting, Norfolk, VA. March 10, 2001.
"Poe the Player: Games, Competition, and Rivalry." American Literature
Association, Long Beach, CA. May 27, 2000.
"The Expansion of Colonial American Studies: The British West Indies and
the Problem of Identity." Society of Early Americanists Biannual Meeting,
Charleston, SC. March 4, 1999.
College and Community Service (Selected)
1999-2006 Coordinator of American Studies Minor
1999-2006 Faculty Advisor, Amnesty International Student Chapter
2005-2006 Faculty Senator
2004-2006 English Department Graduate Committee
2003-2005 College of Charleston Diversity Council Member
2004 Presenter, Unitarian Church in Charleston Forum ("The Paradox of Emersonian Individualism")
2003 Presenter, Faculty Symposium Series ("Love and Theft in the Carolina Lowcountry"), Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
2003 Moderator for Theme Day Panel Discussion of The Great Gatsby
2003 Planning Committee Member, W. E. B. DuBois Symposium, Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
1996-2002 English Department Senior Symposium Committee Member (Chair, 2000-2002)
2001-2002 Convocation Planning Committee Member
1999-2001 Faculty Senator
2001 Presenter (on E. A. Poe), Alice Birney Middle School
2001 Panelist, New Faculty Orientation Session
2001 Planning Committee Member, "Perspectives on Denmark Vesey" Symposium,
Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
1997-1999 College Research and Development Committee Member
1999 Moderator for Theme Day Panel Discussion of The Things They Carried and the Vietnam War
1999 History Day Judge (First Congressional District, SC)
1996-1997 English Department Recording Secretary
Professional and Academic Memberships
Poe Studies Association (President)
Melville Society
Society of Early Americanists
Modern Language Association