Brice Peterson

Brice Peterson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Brigham Young University's College of Humanities, where he specializes in early modern British and American literature. His research explores the intersections of theology, medicine, and literary genre in Renaissance texts, with a particular focus on authors like Aemilia Lanyer, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe.

His research interests include knowledge taxonomies in early modern literature, devotional poetry, and the representation of medical and religious ideas in literary form. He investigates how poets and playwrights interrogate doctrines, theories, and generic conventions, especially through the lens of epistemology and identity.

His recent publications reflect a strong trend in interdisciplinary scholarship, combining literary analysis with religious studies, medical history, and gender theory. Topics span salvation mapping, humoralism, moral authority in Chaucer, and feminist reinterpretations of pastoral poetry. His work appears in leading journals such as Renaissance Drama, The Chaucer Review, and Early Modern Women.

Brice Peterson is actively engaged in major editorial projects, including co-editing a new critical edition of Aemilia Lanyer’s poetry for Oxford University Press and The Cambridge Companion to Aemilia Lanyer. He is also editing a special issue of Explorations in Renaissance Culture titled 'Aemilia Lanyer and the Body' and contributing a chapter on Galenic humoralism in Marlowe to the Oxford Handbook to Christopher Marlowe.