Professor Robert Regan Edgar Allan Poe April 24, 2000 Listen mp3 :: au format :: wav format Read Online Session

An accomplished academician, Regan is an expert in American literature of the 19th century. He is currently pursuing a critical project concerned with the misreadings of Poe. Recently he served as a consultant and participant for a documentary film on Poe that was produced by PBS. Professor Regan is also the author of numerous academic works and lectures on Poe including Poe: A Collection of Critical Essays, "Hawthorne's 'Plagiary': Poe's Duplicity," and "Poe's Narrators and Narratees."

Currently a Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Regan spent a distinguished 40 year career teaching American literature. During his 30-year tenure at Penn, Regan served twice as the Undergraduate Chair of the English Department. His critical work is not limited to Poe; Regan is also a noted scholar and published author on the works of Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, William Dean Howells, and Emily Dickinson. He is currently working on an edition of the shorter travel writings of Mark Twain, which is to be published by the University of California Press. His articles, reviews, and essays have regularly appeared in numerous academic journals such as Virginia Quarterly Review, Poe Studies, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.