Peter C. Norberg, PhD

• BA, Boston College, 1990
• MA, Rice University, 1994
• PhD, Rice University, 1998

• General Associate Editor, Melville’s Marginalia Online
• English Department Chairperson, 2012-present
• Director, Fellowships Office, 2009-2012
• Coeditor, The Edgar Allan Poe Review, 2004-2008

General Fields of Professional Interest

• American literature prior to the Civil War with an emphasis on the writings of Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
• New England Transcendentalism and its origins in British and German romanticism
• The transatlantic literary marketplace
• Political theories of democracy

Pedagogical Style

• Directed discussion with an emphasis on the political issues and historical forces at work within the text. Active participation and regular attendance are expected.

• Congreve and Akenside: Two Poetic Allusions in Melville's 'Fragments from a Writing Desk,'" Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 10.3 (October, 2008).
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings (New York: Barnes and Nobles Classics, January, 2006).
• Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, (New York: Barnes and Nobles Classics, 2004); reissued in hardback, (New York: Barnes and Noble Classics, 2005).
• “Finding an Audience for Clarel in Matthew Arnold’s Essays in Criticism,” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 6.1 (March 2004).
• "On Teaching Bartleby," Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (October, 2000).