EDUCATION
Ph.D., Department of English, Temple University, 2010
M.A., Department of English, Temple University, 2007
B.A., summa cum laude with distinction in English, Rosemont College, 2002
M.Ed., Counseling Psychology, Temple University, 2022
Fellow, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, 2018-2020
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Temple University, Intellectual Heritage Program
Associate Professor of Instruction, 2017-present
Assistant Professor of Instruction, 2011-2017
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
Mental Health Technician, St. Luke’s Penn Foundation, 2022-present
Counseling Intern, The Therapy Group, 2021-2022
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“That Flexible Flageolet”: Music, Homophobia, and Anti-Semitism in George Du Maurier’s Trilby.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 21.4 (2019), 476-492.
“Re-thinking Trollope and Anti-Semitism: Gender, Religion, and ‘the Jew’ in The Way We Live Now.” The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope. Ed. Deborah Denenholz Morse, Margaret Markwick, and Mark Turner. Routledge, 2017.
“The Condition of Music in Victorian Scholarship.” Victorian Literature and Culture 44 (2016), 423-437.
“The Chinese Language and the Saturday Review: A Case Study in Sinophobia’s Scholarly Roots.” Victorian Literature and Culture 43.2 (2015), 431-444.
“Oscar Wilde in Philadelphia: The Rosenbach Exhibition.” Victorian Periodicals Review 48.2 (Summer 2015), 278-280.
“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 Caird’s The Daughters of Danaus.” Victorian Review 40.1 (Spring 2014), 135-154.
Review of The Brontës in the World of the Arts, ed. Sandra Hagan and Juliette Wells. Women’s Writing 20.3 (2013), 417-419.
Review of Michelle Fillion’s 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.
“Dance in the Nineteenth Century.” Review of Cheryl A. Wilson’s Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Jane Austen to the New Woman. English Literature in Transition 53:4 (2010), 498-500.
In Progress
Peak, Anna. Beyond ‘Nice’ and ‘Mean’: Psychology, Pedagogy, and the Frame. Book manuscript in preparation.
Peak, Anna. “Masculinity, Class, and the Musical Canon in Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals.” Complete draft. Plan to submit to Victorian Periodicals Review.
Peak, Anna. Sex and the Other: Racism and the Romance Novel. Book manuscript in preparation.
Peak, Anna. “Vernon Lee, Music, and the Body: A Case Study in Aestheticism and Prejudice.” Complete draft. Plan to submit to Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.
PAPERS PRESENTED
“Sex and the Other: Changing Representations of POC in Romance Novels by White Authors.” Northeast Popular Culture Association (regional conference), virtual, October 20-22, 2022.
“Making Strangers: Sinophobia, Irrationality, and Categorization.” Tracing Xenophobia and Racism in the Era of COVID-19, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, October 28, 2020.
“Simone de Beauvoir in the Classroom: Analytic and Existential Approaches.” Women in Core Conference, Association of Core Texts and Courses, Temple University, 16-17 March 2018.
“A Classic Case of Projection: Victorian Fears and Chinese Music.” New York Conference on Asian Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 22-23 September 2017.
“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 2014.
“Reflecting and Diffusing Binaries: Vernon Lee’s Invention of Meme Theory and the Revision of History.” British Women Writers Conference, Binghamton University (SUNY), 19-21 June 2014.
“Fear of Equality: Music and the Body at the Fin de Siècle.” The Prose Club Lecture Series, Rosemont College, 14 May 2014.
“The Sound of ‘That Flexible Flageolet’: Homophobia in George Du Maurier’s Trilby.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Susquehanna University, 3-6 April 2014.
“Questioning the Origins of British Sinophobia.” Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies, University of Delaware, 1-3 November 2013.
“‘That Terrible Language’: Chinese, Typewriters, and Late-Victorian Sinophobia.” North American Victorian Studies Association, University of Southern California Dornsife, 23-27 October 2013.
“Technology, Imperialism, and Victorian Perceptions of China.” New York Conference on Asian Studies, Binghamton University (SUNY), 27-28 September 2013.
“Inventing Inscrutability: The Chinese Language in the Saturday Review.” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, University of Texas at Austin, 14-15 September 2012.
“Listening to Vernon Lee.” Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Pennsylvania State University at Abington, 26-27 March 2011.
“The Troubled Song of Sappho: Writing Sappho as Musician, Not Poet.” Victorians Institute Conference, Converse College, 16-17 October 2009.
“Trollope’s Anti-Anti-Semitism.” Trollope and Gender, University of Exeter, 17-19 July 2006.
SAMPLE COURSES TAUGHT
Composition
Business Writing
College Composition
Developmental Writing
Lower-level literature
Introduction to English Studies
Introduction to Literature
Survey of British Literature, Medieval to 1660
Survey of British Literature, 1660-1900
Upper-level literature
English Romanticism
Feminist Theory
Senior Seminar: Orientalism, Post-Colonialism, and the British Empire
Senior Seminar: Representations of Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Victorian Literature
Humanities seminars
Intellectual Heritage Humanities Seminar I and II
Online / hybrid courses
Critical Approaches to Literary Theory
Intellectual Heritage Humanities Seminar I and II
Transatlantic Modernism
AWARDS AND HONORS
CLA Teaching Award (non-tenure-track category), College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2018
Violet B. Ketels Award for Excellence in Teaching and Extraordinary Service to the Intellectual Heritage Program, 2017
Merit Award for Excellence in Research, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2017, 2018, 2020
Merit Award for Excellence in Service, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2016, 2019, 2020
Teaching materials featured in Digital Humanities and the Novel, ed. Kathryn Huie Harrison, website of Studies in the Novel, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015
Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Teaching with Technology Fellow, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies, Temple University, 2013, 2016, 2017
“Working with ESL Students” Award, jointly sponsored by the Intellectual Heritage Program and the First-Year Writing Program, Temple University, 2013
Travel and Research Award, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, 2012, 2013, 2014
Diamond Peer Teaching Program Mentor Award, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies, Temple University, 2012, 2013
Newton Prize for Best Essay in Pre-20th Century Literature, Department of English, Temple University, 2007
Outstanding Teacher Award, First-Year Writing Program, Temple University, 2006
SERVICE
Editor, Temple University Faculty Herald, Temple University, 2020-2022
Chair, Promotions Committee, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, 2020
Online Coordinator, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, 2020
Member, Promotions Committee, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, 2019
Manuscript review, Journal of Victorian Culture, 2018-present
Faculty judge, Livingstone Undergraduate Research Awards, Temple University Libraries, 2018
Curriculum committee, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, 2018
Manuscript review, Victorian Review, 2017-present
Faculty Advisor, Maneto (Temple University undergraduate open-access research journal), 2016-present
Quality Matters reviewer, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2016-present
Ethical Reasoning Taskforce, General Education Program, Temple University, 2016-present
Editorial Board, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 2013-present
Titus Award Selection Committee, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, 2017
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, 2017-2020
First-Year Writing Placement, Chestnut Hill College, 2009, 2010
Faculty Search Committee, Romantic literature, Temple University, 2007-2008
Editor, Schuylkill (Temple University graduate journal), 2007
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Counseling Association, American Psychological Association, Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals