Peter Graham
Peter Graham, Professor Emeritus

Department of English
401 Shanks Hall
181 Turner Street NW
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-6715 | pegraham@vt.edu
Peter Graham is a professor emeritus in the Department of English.
- Lord Byron
- Jane Austen
- Charles Darwin
- English Romantics
- Literature and Medicine
- A.B. cum laude Davidson College
- M.A., Ph.D. Duke University
- Director of International Relations and Academic Affairs, Messolonghi Byron Research Center in Messolonghi, Greece
- Vice President and Board of Directors, Byron Society of America
- Board of Advisory Editors, Byron Journal
- Board of Advisory Editors, Literature and Medicine
- Clifford Cutchins Professorship, 2000-05
- Jane Austen Society of North America Traveling Scholar, 2009-10
- Elma Dangerfield Prize (International Association of Byron Societies), 1992, co-winner 2000
Books
- Darwin’s Sciences (with Duncan M. Porter)
- Jane Austen & Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists
- Don Juan and Regency England
- Articulating the Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick and His Interpreters (with Fritz Oehlschlaeger)
- Byron’s Bulldog: The Letters of John Cam Hobhouse to Lord Byron
- The Portable Darwin (with Duncan M. Porter)
Journal Articles
- “Childe Harold and Fitzwilliam Darcy, or a Tale of Two 200-Year-Old Heroes,” Persuasions 35 (Winter 2013), 169-81)
- “Falling for the Crawfords: Character, Contingency, and Narrative in Mansfield Park,” ELH 77, n. 4 (Winter 2010), 867-91
- “Byron and the Business of Publishing,” in Cambridge Companion to Byron, ed. J. Drummond Bone, 27-43
- “The Haunting of Don Juan,” in Byron’s Ghosts, ed. Gavin Hopps, 184-201
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