Peter Conn

Vartan Gregorian Professor of English Emeritus

pconn@english.upenn.edu

School: Arts & Sciences 
General Topic Areas: 19th-Century American Literature,
20th-Century American Literature

Sample Talk Topics or Titles:

• American Bestsellers (fiction and non-fiction)
• American Literature and American Painting
• The Art of Biography
• Edward Hopper’s New York
• The History of Adoption
• The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
• Detective Fiction