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English Department Faculty
Thomas Peyser
Professor of English
Educational Background:
A.B., English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University
Ph.D., English and American Literature, University of Virginia
Recent courses:
ENGL 336 Post-World War II American Fiction
ENGL 331 Apocalypse Now: The Romantic Movement in American Writing
ENGL 375 Grammar for Readers, Writers, and Teachers
ENGL 361 Twentieth-Century British Literature
ENGL 364 The Novel in the Twentieth Century
Research Areas:
- Economics and Literature
- The Novel
- American Literature
Recent publications and presentations:
“Capitalist Vistas: Walt Whitman and Spontaneous Order.” Literature and Economics: Studies in Spontaneous Order. Ed. Paul Cantor and Stephen Cox. Chicago: Open Court. Forthcoming.
"Planning Utopia." Blackwell Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914. Ed. Robert Paul Lamb and G.R. Thompson. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2005. 411-427.
W.W. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2000.
"How Global Is It: Walter Abish and the Fiction of Globalization." Contemporary Literature 40 (1999): 240-262.
Utopia and Cosmopolis: Globalization in the Era of American Literary Realism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
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