Peter Diamond is a PhD candidate in English at University of Pennsylvania, studying seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature of the Atlantic World. His research interests include Anglophone literature from about 1637–1837, poetry and poetics, political theory, economic history, transatlantic and early American studies, empire, pastoral and georgic traditions, environmental humanities, Biblical exegesis, and the history of material texts. 

Since December 2022, Peter has been a project manager for the Digital Beehive, a project dedicated to digitizing an early eighteenth-century commonplace book from Philadelphia, which is supported by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies; the Price Lab for Digital Humanities; and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts.

Peter received his M.A. in English from Penn in 2021 as the 2020–2021 John Louis Haney Graduate Fellow. From fall 2021–spring 2023, Peter served as a co-coordinator of the Restoration to Victorian Studies Reading Group (ResVic) in Penn English. He is also a Graduate Resident Advisor at Lauder College House, and he has assisted with the teaching of Penn courses in English, psychoanalytic studies, and cinema and media studies.

Before coming to Penn, Peter received his B.A. in 2020 from Brandeis University, where he graduated summa cum laude with the highest honors in English. At Brandeis, he was a recipient of the Provost's Undergraduate Research Fellowship, the Jerome A. Schiff Undergraduate Fellowship, and the Shalom Award for Undergraduate Research.