Emeritae/i Faculty
Peggy Thompson Ph.D.
Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor Emerita of English
Contact Information
Email: pthompson@agnesscott.edu
Academic Degrees
B.A., (Humanities) Arizona State University
M.A., (Philosophy) Emory University
M.A., (Humanities) Arizona State University
M.A., (English) Indiana University
Ph.D., (English) Indiana University
M.A., (Philosophy) Emory University
M.A., (Humanities) Arizona State University
M.A., (English) Indiana University
Ph.D., (English) Indiana University
Teaching and Scholarly Interests
Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, feminist criticism. literature and philosophy.
Professional Activities
Professor Thompson is the author of Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy: Women's Desire, Deception, and Agency (2012), and editor of Beyond Sense and Sensibility: Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth (2015). Current projects include a study of habit in later eighteenth-century British writing.