Anna Peak

Anna Peak is a Professor of Instruction in Temple University’s Intellectual Heritage Program at the College of Liberal Arts. With a Ph.D. in English and M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from Temple, she teaches Honors, online, and ESL courses while maintaining dual expertise in Victorian literature and psychoanalytic theory.

• Ph.D., Department of English, Temple University, 2010
• M.A., Department of English, Temple University, 2007
• B.A., Rosemont College, 2002
• M.Ed., Counseling Psychology, Temple University, 2022
• Fellow, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, 2018-2020

Her research focuses on intersections of aesthetics, race, social class, and disability in Victorian literature. Recent work explores disability representation in Victorian fiction and racialized discourses in 19th-century periodicals. Publications address topics like music and gender, anti-Semitism in Trollope, and sinophobic narratives in academic journals.

Anna Peak has received multiple Merit Awards for teaching, research, and service from Temple University’s College of Liberal Arts. She serves on editorial boards for Interdisciplinary Literary Studies and Temple University Faculty Herald, and advises Maneto, Temple’s undergraduate open-access research journal.