ANNA L.

PEAK
Temple University

1801 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
anna.peak@temple.edu

EDUCATION
2010 Ph.D., Department of English, Temple University
2007 M.A., Department of English, Temple University
2002 B.A., summa cum laude with distinction in English, Rosemont College
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2011-present Temple University, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Intellectual Heritage Program
PUBLICATIONS
Essays and Book Chapters
2016

2016


2015

2014

2014

The Condition of Music in Victorian Scholarship. Review essay. Victorian Literature and
Culture. Forthcoming in 44 (2016), 423-437.
Re-thinking Trollope and Anti-Semitism: Gender, Religion, and the Jew in The Way We Live
Now. The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthony Trollope. Ed. Deborah Denenholz Morse,
Margaret Markwick, and Mark Turner. Forthcoming from Ashgate in 2016. In press.
The Chinese Language and the Saturday Review: A Case Study in Sinophobias Scholarly
Roots. Victorian Literature and Culture 43.2 (2015), 431-444.
Servants and the Victorian Sensation Novel. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 54.4
(Autumn 2014), 835-851.
Music and New Woman Aesthetics in Mona Cairds The Daughters of Danaus. Victorian Review
40.1 (Spring 2014), 135-154.

Editorial Work
2017 The Arts in the Periodical Press. Special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. Scheduled for

publication in 2017.
Reviews and Reference
2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

Contributor, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Bibliography: 2013-2015, ed.

Katherine Malone. Forthcoming in Victorian Periodicals Review.
Oscar Wilde in Philadelphia: The Rosenbach Exhibition. Victorian Periodicals Review 48.2
(Summer 2015), 278-280.
Contributor, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Bibliography: 2011-2013, ed.
Katherine Malone. Victorian Periodicals Review 47.3 (Fall 2014), 476-519.
Review of The Bronts in the World of the Arts, ed. Sandra Hagan and Juliette Wells. Womens
Writing 20.3 (2013), 417-419.
Contributor, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Bibliography: 2009-2011, ed.
Katherine Malone. Victorian Periodicals Review 45.3 (Fall 2012), 320-357.

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2011


2010

2010


2006


2004

Review of Michelle Fillions Difficult Rhythm: Music and the Word in E.M. Forster. Studies in the
Novel 44.2 (Summer 2012), 248-250.
New Editions. Review of new editions and anthologies (New Grub Street, Workers in the Dawn,
Enchanted Ideologies, The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon, and A Defense of Uranian Love). English
Literature in Transition 54.4 (2011), 548-551.
Contributor, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Bibliography: 2007-2009, ed. Alexis
Easley. Victorian Periodicals Review 43.3 (Fall 2010), 217-261.
Dance in the Nineteenth Century. Review of Cheryl A. Wilsons Literature and Dance in
Nineteenth-Century Britain: Jane Austen to the New Woman. English Literature in Transition 53:4
(2010), 498-500.
Literary Housekeeping. Review of Beth Sutton-Ramspecks Raising the Dust: Literary
Housekeeping in the Works of Sarah Grand, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Mary Ward. English
Literature in Transition 49:2 (2006), 205-208.
Entries on Susan B. Anthony and Margaret Mitchell, Encyclopedia of American Studies, ed. Miles
Orvell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004.

AWARDS AND HONORS

2016
2016
2013-2016
2013
2013


2012-2014
2012, 2013


2007


2006
2006

Merit Award for Excellence in Research, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University
Merit Award for Excellence in Service, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University
Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University
Technology Fellow, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies, Temple University
Working with ESL Students Award, jointly sponsored by the Intellectual Heritage
Program and the First-Year Writing Program, Temple University
Travel and Research Award, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University
Diamond Peer Teaching Program Mentor Award, Senior Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Studies, Temple University
Newton Prize for Best Essay on Pre-20th Century Literature, Department of English,
Temple University
Graduate Student Excellence Fund, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University
Outstanding Teacher Award, First-Year Writing Program, Temple University

PAPERS PRESENTED
2014


2014

2014

2014

2013

2013


2013

A Canon By and For the Working Class: Reassessing the Role of Music Periodicals in the
English Musical Renaissance. Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, University of
Delaware, 12-13 September.
Reflecting and Diffusing Binaries: Vernon Lees Invention of Meme Theory and the Revision
of History. British Women Writers Conference, Binghamton University (SUNY), 19-21 June.
Fear of Equality: Music and the Body at the Fin de Sicle. The Prose Club Lecture Series,
Rosemont College, 14 May.
The Sound of That Flexible Flageolet: Homophobia in George Du Mauriers Trilby.
Northeast Modern Language Association, Susquehanna University, 3-6 April.
Questioning the Origins of British Sinophobia. Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies,
University of Delaware, 1-3 November.
That Terrible Language: Chinese, Typewriters, and Late-Victorian Sinophobia. North
American Victorian Studies Association, University of Southern California Dornsife, 23-27
October.
Technology, Imperialism, and Victorian Perceptions of China. New York Conference on
Asian Studies, Binghamton University (SUNY), 27-28 September.

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2011

2009

2006

Inventing Inscrutability: The Chinese Language in the Saturday Review. Research Society for
Victorian Periodicals, University of Texas at Austin, 14-15 September.
Listening to Vernon Lee. Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Pennsylvania State
University at Abington, 26-27 March.
The Troubled Song of Sappho: Writing Sappho as Musician, Not Poet. Victorians Institute
Conference, Converse College, 16-17 October.
Trollopes Anti-Anti-Semitism. Trollope and Gender, University of Exeter, 17-19 July.

SAMPLE COURSES TAUGHT

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Lower-Division












Composition

Critical Approaches to Literary Theory

English Romanticism
Feminist Theory
Senior Seminar: Orientalism, Post-Colonialism, and the British Empire
Senior Seminar: Representations of Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Themes and Genres in Womens Literature: Literary Foremothers
Victorian Literature
Introduction to English Studies
Introduction to Literature
Mosaic: Humanities Seminar I and II (including Honors, ESL, and online)
The Short Story
Survey of British Literature, Medieval to 1660
Survey of British Literature, 1660-1900
Women in Literature
Business Writing
College Composition
Developmental Writing

SERVICE
Faculty Advisor, Temple University undergraduate research journal, 2016-present
Editorial Board, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 2013-present
Dean Search Committee, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2015-2016
Editorial Board, Temple University Faculty Herald, 2013-2015
NTT Merit Award Committee, Temple University, 2013-2015
Student Award Selection Committee, Temple University, 2013-2014
Faculty Search Committee, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, 2014
Blackboard Feedback Team, Temple University, 2013
Representative Senator, Temple University Faculty Senate, 2012-2016
Faculty Search Committee, Romantic literature, Temple University, 2007-2008
Editor, Schuylkill (Temple University graduate journal), 2007
Vice-President, Temple University Graduate English Association, 2006-2007