Visiting Speakers

Gustav Peebles received his PhD in 2003 from the University of Chicago and is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Social Sciences, Bachelor’s Program, at The New School for Public Engagement.

Bob Perelman has published over 15 volumes of poetry, most recently The Future of Memory (Roof Books) and Ten to One: Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press). His critical focus is on poetry and modernism, with his major books being The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History (Princeton University Press) and The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky (University of California Press). He has edited Writing/Talks (Southern Illinois University Press), a collection of talks by poets. Modernism the Morning After is forthcoming from Alabama UP; he is working on a new book of poems, Jack and Jill.

Clare Pettitt is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King's College London. She read English at Cambridge and then worked in theatre and journalism before returning to study and receiving a D.Phil. from Oxford University. She taught at Oxford and Leeds universities, and she was Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Newnham College, Cambridge from 1998-2005. In 2005, she moved to the English Department at King's College London where she currently works.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of The Ground: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), winner of the 2013 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer Award in Poetry, a finalist for the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry. He is also the author of a book of criticism, When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness (Dalkey Archive Press, 2010), and the translator of Salvador Espriu's classic Catalan collection of short stories, Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth (Dalkey Archive Press, 2012). Born and raised in New York City, he is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Brown University, where he attained his doctorate in English Literature. Phillips has taught in Harvard's History and Literature Program and Columbia's Graduate School of the Arts, and is currently an associate professor of English at Stony Brook University, where he directs the Poetry Center

Christopher Phillips teaches the history of science and medicine. He is particularly interested in the cultural role and authority of the exact, or mathematical, sciences in the modern period.

Daniel Pick is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London and a psychoanalyst. He is a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Daniel co-runs an MA programme at Birkbeck on psychoanalysis, history and culture. 

Lucy Pick is a historian of medieval religious thought and practice. Her current research and teaching interests include the relationships between gender and religion, connections between historical writing and theology, the development of monastic thought and practice, reading and writing as spiritual exercises, and the ways in which religion shapes lives through ritual. Her book, Conflict and Coexistence: Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Thirteenth-Century Spain, discusses Jewish, Christian, and Muslim relations in thirteenth-century Toledo. Dr. Pick is currently working on a monograph studying the intersection of gender, politics, and religion in the Middle Ages.

Alison Piepmeier is author of Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism (New York University Press, 2009), the first academic study of zines by girls and women. She is also co-editor of Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century (Northeastern University Press, 2003), a collection that is widely taught in Women's Studies classes, and author of Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2004). She directs the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the College of Charleston, where she is also associate professor of English. She has served as a member of the Governing Council of the National Women's Studies Association.