Professor Peter M. Logan joined the Digital Futures Institute as a Visiting Professor in 2024.

He is an Emeritus Professor of English at Temple University and Director of The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project.

Research Interests

I am currently analysing the history of knowledge in 19th-century Britain and America, using text from multiple editions of Encyclopedia Britannica as the primary data set. Other interests are digital humanities, 19th-century British literature and culture, the histories of medicine and anthropology, and literary theory and criticism.

Selected Publications

As editor:

• Encyclopedia Britannica, Seventh Edition: A Machine-Readable Text Transcription (2023).
• Encyclopedia Britannica, Ninth Edition: A Machine-Readable Text Transcription (2023).
• Encyclopedia of the Novel, 2 vols. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Monographs:

• Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009.
• Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Articles:

• "Michael Field in the Digital Age," in Michael Field in Context, ed. Sarah Parker, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2025).
• "Primitive Criticism and the Novel: G. H. Lewes and Hippolyte Taine on Dickens," Victorian Literature and Culture 46.1 March (2018): 125–142.
• "Imitations of Insanity and Victorian Medical Aesthetics." Interdisciplinarity and the Body, edited by Pamela K. Gilbert. Spec. issue of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 49 (February 2008).