Robert Regan

Obituary:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/obituaries/20160710_Robert_Regan__English...

Robert Regan concentrates on American literature of the nineteenth century. Currently he is preparing a multi-volume edition of Mark Twain's travel writings for the University of California press. He is also pursuing a critical project concerned with misreadings of Poe. Other authors of particular interest to him include Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, and Henry Adams.

News & Events

2016/07/11

In Memoriam: Robert Regan

Doctoral Dissertations Chaired

1993

Roland Williams "Sweet Music: A Sounding of American Narratives"

1991

Jorg Homberger "A Further Garden: The Gentleman Ideal in Southern Fiction, 1894-1904"

1990

Theresa Spitler "The Dilemma of Superiority: The Genius Character in American Fiction"

1986

Benjamin L. Goluboff "The Confident Dream: American Travel Writing on Britain"

1981

Susan Jeffords "Notes of Discord: Languages and power in English and American Novel"

Catherine Robert "Mark Twain's Traveling Companions"

1978

Richard G. Androne "Character in Selected Works of Henry Adams"

Dwight Thomas "Poe's Philadelphia, 1838-1844"

Bruce I. Weiner "The Art that was Used Up: Poe's Exploitation of Narrative Conventions "

1977

John R. Getz "Frederick Goddard Tuckerman: His Time and Place"

Bonnie Skell Hardwick "The Literature of the Geologic Surveys of the West"

1974

Martin J. Bickman "A Jungian Analysis of Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson "

Melissa A. Cannon "Confessional Poetry: A Study of Critical Terminology "

Gail C Levin "Grace Elizabeth King: Her Life and Works "

1972

Judith B. Hodge "The Essential Constant: Structure and Meaning in Selected Novels of Henry James "

John S Mann "The Leashed Serpent: A Study of Emily Dickinson's Poetry"

1971

Michael L Baumann "B. Traven's Place in American Literature"

Patricia McMurray "Union and Identificiation: Whitman, the Reader, the Universe"

Courses Taught

spring 1998

ENGL 040.302 Major British Poets 1660- Present

ENGL 283.402 Topics in Nineteenth- Century American Literature

fall 1997

ENGL 202.303 Major British Poets

ENGL 282.301 Topics in Early American Literature

fall 1996

ENGL 083.001 American Literature 1870-1900

ENGL 103.001 The Short Story

ENGL 283.401 Mark Twain

spring 1996

ENGL 016.302 Mark Twain's World

ENGL 202.302 Major British Poets 1660-1925

fall 1995

ENGL 202.302 Major British Poets (Part 2)

ENGL 289.401 The American South

spring 1995

ENGL 016.301 Topics in Literature: Poetry and Poetics, Past and Present

ENGL 202.203 Major British Poets 1660-1925

ENGL 283.401 Topics in 19th Century American Literature

fall 1994

ENGL 103.601 The Short Story