Professor Dr. Peter Diamond
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Biography
Peter Diamond is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century transatlantic literature. He is the recipient of the Barbara Brizdle Lawrence J. Schoenberg Fellowship for the academic year 2024-2025 and has been awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Mid-Doctoral Fellowship for the Price Lab for Digital Humanities for the year 2023-2024. Diamond has been integral to the Digital Beehive project, which concentrates on annotating early American commonplace books, and has received support from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Price Lab, and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts. In addition to his research, he co-coordinated the Restoration Victorian Studies Reading Group (ResVic) from 2021 to 2023. He teaches courses in the Department of English that explore the Bible and early American literature and has also assisted in courses related to English, psychoanalytic studies, and cinema media studies. He earned his M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021 and his B.A. from Brandeis University in 2020, graduating summa cum laude with highest honors in English.
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Andrew W. Mellon Price Lab Doctoral Fellowship
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