Michael Egan (author)

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Michael Egan is Scholar in Residence at Brigham Young University, Hawai’i and Professor of English and Political Science at TransPacific Hawai’i College, Honolulu. 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.

He 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) and Henry James: The Ibsen Years (Vision Press, 1972).

Michael’s most recent book is the variorum edition of The First Part of the Tragedy of King Richard the Second: A Newly Aurthenticated Play by William Shakespeare, with an introduc¬tion, notes and critical commentary. (Edwin Mellen Press, 2006), which won the 2006 Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship.