Peter C. Norberg

Peter C. Norberg is Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University, where he also serves as Senior Associate Provost for Academic and Faculty Support and has chaired the Department of English, Writing and Journalism since 2012.

Education

• BA, Boston College, 1990
• MA, Rice University, 1994
• PhD, Rice University, 1998

Research Focus

Professor Norberg’s scholarship centers on American literature before the Civil War, with particular attention to Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. He situates these authors within the wider contexts of New England Transcendentalism, British and German romantic influences, the transatlantic literary marketplace, and democratic political theory.

Across his publications he has explored textual allusion, reception history, and pedagogical approaches, consistently highlighting the interplay between historical forces and literary form.

Awards & Honors

• General Associate Editor, Melville’s Marginalia Online
• Co-editor, The Edgar Allan Poe Review (2004–2008)
• Director, Fellowships Office (2009–2012)

Editorial & Administrative Roles

In addition to his departmental chairmanship, Professor Norberg has directed the university’s Fellowships Office and held editorial posts with leading journals and digital projects, fostering scholarly communities around nineteenth-century American literature.