Peter Emanuel Diamond is a PhD candidate in English at University of Pennsylvania, studying seventeenth- and eighteenth-century transatlantic literature. During the 2026–27 academic year, Peter is a Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellow. In 2024–25, Peter was Penn's Barbara Brizdle and Lawrence J. Schoenberg Fellow in the History of Material Texts. In 2023–2024, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Mid-Doctoral Fellow in the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. He has also served as a project manager for the Digital Beehive, a project dedicated to annotating an early American commonplace book, which is supported by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies; the Price Lab; and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts. From 2021–2023, Peter served as a co-coordinator of the Restoration to Victorian Studies Reading Group (ResVic). He teaches courses in the Department of English on the Bible, early American literature, and digital humanities. In 2026, he received the SAS Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students.

M.A. University of Pennsylvania, 2021

B.A. Brandeis University, 2020, summa cum laude with the highest honors in English