Michael Egan (author)

Michael Egan (author)

Michael Egan was Scholar in Residence at Brigham Young University, Hawai’i[1] and Professor of English and Political Science at TransPacific Hawaii College, Honolulu. (which ceased teaching at the end of 2008[2]). He earned his Ph.D at Cambridge University, where he edited The Cambridge Review and was first Contributing Literary Editor for the Times Higher Education Supplement.[1]

Publications

Egan is the author of more than 80 professional articles and ten books, including:

  • Henrik Ibsen: The Critical Heritage (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972, Taylor & Francis, 2000)
  • Extreme Situations: Literature and Crisis from the Great War to the Atom Bomb (Macmillan, 1979) [with David Craig]
  • Huckleberry Finn: Race, Class and Society (Sussex University Press, 1977)
  • Henry James: The Ibsen Years (Vision Press, 1972)

Egan's most recent book is the variorum edition of The First Part of the Tragedy of King Richard the Second: A Newly Authenticated Play by William Shakespeare, with an introduction, notes and critical commentary (Edwin Mellen Press, 2006),[1] which won the 2006 Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship.

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