Peter P. Reed is Assistant Professor of Early American Literature. Dr. Reed received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Florida State University, where he taught as an instructor from 2005 to 2007. He received an NEH-funded postdoctoral grant in 2007 for archival research in early American theatre culture in Philadelphia, and is conducting further research in 2008 on an ORSP Faculty Development Grant through the University of Mississippi. He has published articles on early American and Atlantic theatre, and is preparing a book project on the history of outcast and rogue characters in early American theatre. Dr. Reed teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in early American literature.