Michael Egan was Scholar in Residence at Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University Hawaii

Brigham Young University–Hawaii is a private university located in Laie, Hawaii. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....

, Hawai’i and Professor of English and Political Science

Political science

Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

 at TransPacific Hawaii College

TransPacific Hawaii College

TransPacific Hawaii College was a private junior college located in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. It was founded in 1977 and was initially known as the Kansai Gaidai Hawaii College, and the name was changed to TransPacific Hawaii College in 1998. The College closed its operation at the end of December 2008...

, Honolulu. (which ceased teaching at the end of 2008). He earned his Ph.D at Cambridge University, where he edited The Cambridge Review and was first Contributing Literary Editor

Literary editor

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 for the Times Higher Education Supplement.

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

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

, with an introduction, notes and critical commentary (Edwin Mellen Press

Edwin Mellen Press

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, 2006), which won the 2006 Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship.