Research and teaching in pre-1900 American literature and culture.
Research Interests
My current research is in eighteenth and nineteenth-century American popular culture and the environment.
Biography
Peter Reed (PhD, Florida State University) is the author of Rogue Performances: Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture (Palgrave, 2009) and Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance (Cambridge UP, 2022); he has also written essays on Atlantic minstrelsy, Caribbean performance, and the impact of the Haitian Revolution on American performance culture. He has contributed essays to the Oxford Handbook of Georgian Theatre, 1737-1832 (Oxford UP, 2014) and the collection Haiti and the Early U.S: Histories, Geographies, Textualities (U Penn P, 2016). Reed received his doctorate from Florida State University and is the past holder of research fellowships from the NEH, the American Antiquarian Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, Harvard’s Houghton Library, Yale’s Beinecke Library, and the Library of Congress. He has served on the editorial board of Theatre Annual, the steering committee for the ASA’s early American Matters Caucus, the Publications Committee of the ATDS, and as a convener of the ASTR’s Diasporic Imagination Research Group and as the MLA liaison for the American Theatre and Drama Society.
Publications
Education
B.A. English, Harding University (1998)
M.A. Humanities, Florida State University (2000)
Ph.D. English, Florida State University (2005)