Dr. John Peters

Dr. John Peters, Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. in English from The Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Peters' primary fields of interest are British Modernism, Victorian Literature, Post-Colonial Literature, and the works of Daniel Defoe.

Dr. Peters received the Joseph Conrad Society of America's Young Scholar Award for 1998.

Dr. Peters has published Conrad and Impressionism (Cambridge University Press, 2001), which was selected as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2001 and recently received second place for the 2005 Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies for the best book published on Conrad's life or works during the previous four-year period. He is also author of The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad (2006) and has published a number of scholarly articles in such journals as Studies in the Novel, Victorian Review, Studies in Browning, Bronte Studies, Conradiana, English Language Notes, and Studies in Short Fiction. He is currently working on a new book entitled Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Perception.

Dr. Peters' Japanese poetry translations have appeared in such literary magazines as Sonora Review, Tampa Review, Crab Orchard Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, and New Orleans Review. His book of translations, The Chieko Poems, is forthcoming from Green Integer Press.

Dr. Peters is a General Editor for the Stoke Newington Edition of the Works of Daniel Defoe and a review editor for Studies in
the Novel and Joseph Conrad Today.

Dr. Peters is the Coordinator for Sophomore Literature.

Office: Language Building, Room 409E
Phone: 940.565.2635
Email: jgpeters@unt.edu

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