Megan Peiser is an enrolled citizen of Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She is Associate Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Oakland University. Her research and teaching interests include women writers, history of the novel, history of the book, periodicals, Indigenous literature and culture, material culture, and digital humanities.
Megan Peiser’s monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical was published in 2026 with Johns Hopkins University Press. Its accompanying database, Novels Reviewed Database,1790-1820, or NRD is available on Bibsite.org. Her research and writing appear in Eighteenth- Century Fiction, Romantic Textualities, Eighteenth-Century Theory and Interpretation, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and more. She is also collaborating with colleague and librarian, Emily Spunaugle, on the Marguerite Hicks Project.
Peiser is a 2025 Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Snowden Awardee. Her research is supported by an Institute for Citizens and Scholars Fellowship, a Chawton House Library Visiting Scholar Fellowship, a Princeton University Library Research Fellowship, and the Bibliographical Society of America. She was a Bibliographical Society of America New Scholar in 2017.
She lives in southeast Michigan with her partner, children, dogs, chickens, and hive of bees.
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