Peter Erickson

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Peter Erickson is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, History and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Erickson has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 8 papers in History and 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Peter Erickson's work include Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (11 papers), Historical Art and Culture Studies (5 papers) and Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 papers). Peter Erickson is often cited by papers focused on Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (11 papers), Historical Art and Culture Studies (5 papers) and Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 papers). Peter Erickson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Austria. Peter Erickson's co-authors include Paul Gilroy, Alan Sinfield, Jonathan Dollimore, Leonard Tennenhouse, John Drakakis, Patricia A. Parker, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Kim Hall, Harry Berger and David Schalkwyk and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of American History, The Modern Language Review and PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America.

In The Last Decade

Peter Erickson

38 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness.
    1997 2.9k citations Peter Erickson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Erickson United States 11 1.8k 940 733 652 444 61 3.6k
Richard Handler United States 25 1.9k 1.0× 314 0.3× 502 0.7× 1.1k 1.7× 333 0.8× 126 4.4k
Aldon Lynn Nielsen United States 8 1.3k 0.7× 436 0.5× 445 0.6× 414 0.6× 320 0.7× 32 2.3k
Henry Louis Gates United States 24 1.6k 0.9× 1.3k 1.4× 600 0.8× 470 0.7× 77 0.2× 146 3.7k
Bill Ashcroft Australia 18 2.0k 1.1× 1.1k 1.2× 482 0.7× 678 1.0× 320 0.7× 63 4.2k
Mary Louise Pratt United States 17 1.4k 0.8× 964 1.0× 575 0.8× 867 1.3× 278 0.6× 74 3.8k
Helen Tiffin Australia 16 1.6k 0.9× 978 1.0× 436 0.6× 548 0.8× 266 0.6× 48 3.5k
Patrick Brantlinger United States 18 1.1k 0.6× 596 0.6× 305 0.4× 431 0.7× 168 0.4× 75 2.5k
Anne McClintock United States 13 1.7k 0.9× 485 0.5× 373 0.5× 552 0.8× 169 0.4× 23 2.8k
Andreas Huyssen United States 19 1.3k 0.7× 753 0.8× 350 0.5× 304 0.5× 66 0.1× 89 3.4k
Myra Jehlen United States 9 1.2k 0.7× 610 0.6× 267 0.4× 420 0.6× 160 0.4× 22 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Erickson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Erickson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Erickson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Erickson, Peter. (2016). Posing the Black Painter Kerry James Marshall’s Portraits of Artists’ Self-Portraits. Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art. 2016(38-39). 40–51. 1 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter. (2014). The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature. Journal of American History. 101(3). 985–985. 70 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter. (2013). "'Late' has no meaning here": Imagining a Second Chance in Toni Morrison's Desdemona. 8(1). 4 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter. (2013). Mining Shakespeare: Fred Wilson’s Visual Translations of Othello. Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art. 2013(33). 8–19. 3 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter. (2012). Representations of Blacks and Blackness in the Renaissance. DigitalCommons - WayneState (Wayne State University). 5 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter. (2011). "Othello's Back": Othello as Mock Tragedy in Rita Dove's Sonata Mulattica. Journal of Narrative Theory. 41(3). 362–377. 3 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter. (2009). Black Like Me: Reconfiguring Blackface in the Art of Glenn Ligon and Fred Wilson. Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art. 2009(25). 30–47. 4 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter. (2009). Casting for Racial Harmony: Strategies of Redemption in Caleen Sinnette Jennings’s Double Play. Shakespeare bulletin. 27(3). 415–423. 7 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter. (2009). Invisibility Speaks: Servants and Portraits in Early Modern Visual Culture. Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. 9(1). 23–61. 11 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter. (2004). Book Reviews. Women s Studies. 34(1). 99–102.
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Erickson, Peter. (2001). : Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt against the Italian Renaissance. Renaissance Quarterly. 54(4, Part 2). 1641–1642. 1 indexed citations
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Schalkwyk, David, Harry Berger, & Peter Erickson. (2000). Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare. Shakespeare Quarterly. 51(4). 480–480. 28 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter. (1998). The Moment of Race in Renaissance Studies. 27. 9 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter. (1997). : The Earl and Countess of Arundel: Renaissance Collectors; An Exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 2 May-1 October 1995.. Renaissance Quarterly. 50(3). 942–944. 1 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter, Michael McGiffert, & Joyce Green MacDonald. (1997). "Constructing Race: Differentiating Peoples in the Early Modern World.". Shakespeare Quarterly. 48(3). 363–363. 1 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter, Theodore W. Allen, Tomás Almaguer, et al.. (1995). Seeing White. Transition. 166–166. 2 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter, et al.. (1993). Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves. South Central Review. 10(1). 109–109. 9 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter. (1991). Rather than Reject a Common Culture, Multiculturalism Advocates a More Complicated Route by Which to Achieve It.. ˜The œchronicle of higher education. 37(41). 3. 5 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter. (1991). Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves. 5 indexed citations
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Erickson, Peter. (1982). Review of Marilyn French,Shakespeare's division of experience†. Women s Studies. 9(2). 189–201. 2 indexed citations

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