Associate Dean
Arts And Sciences
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WEST@ADELPHI.EDU
Ph.D., Emory University (2001)
B.A., Wesleyan University (1994)
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Urban Literature
The Literature of Slavery
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
The Literature of Long Island and New York City
The Moving Panorama
The Literature of Slavery
The Panorama: Texts and Contexts, 1787-1900, Pickering & Chatto (London). Co-edited this five-volume collection with Laurie Garrison, Sibylle Erle, Verity Hunt, and Phoebe Putnam. Sole editor and author for American Panoramas (volume five). Reviewed in TLS: http://www.academia.edu/10555187/_Viewed_in_the_round_review_of_Laurie_Garrison_et_al._ed._The_Panorama_1787-1900
Peter West (2008). The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press.
Peter West (2012). Pierre and the Ambiguities of Antebellum America. In Eric Carl Link (Eds.). Herman Melville: Critical Insights. (pp. forthcoming). Salem Press.
Peter West (2011), The City in Frames: Otis Bullard's Moving Panorama of New York. Common-place, vol. 11 no. 4.
Peter West (2010), Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839-1869. Southern Spaces.
Peter West (2008), Review of Danger on the Doorstep (by Justin Nordstrom) and the Pilgrim and the Bee (by Matthew P. Brown). American Literature, 80, 4.
Peter West (2007), Review of Hawthorne and the Real: Bicentennial Essays (ed. Millicent Bell). Resources for American Literary Study, 31, 340-343.
Peter West (2002), Frames More Valuable Than Pictures Themselves: Fiction and Journalism in Hawthorne's The Story-Teller. ATQ: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 16, 4, 277-290.
(2010). City Eyes: Otis Bullard's 1850 Panorama of New York. In c19: The First Annual Meeting of the Society of 19th-Century Americanists. State College, PA.
(2009). Going Underground: Slavery and the Gothic Theater of Mammoth Cave. In Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston, MA.
(2008). The Journalistic Origins of Romance. In Annual Meeting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society. Bowdoin College.
(2008). The River of Rivers: Moving Panoramas and the Making of the Modern Mississippi. In College English Association. St. Louis, MO.