Faculty Directory
Richard Kopley
Professor of English at Penn State DuBois
176 Smeal Building
DuBois, PA 15801
Office Phone: 814 375 4743
rxk3@psu.edu
Office Hours:
By Appointment
Education:
Ph.D, SUNY Buffalo, 1982
Research Interests:
Poe; Hawthorne; Melville; Thoreau; the American Renaissance
Major Publications:
Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
The Threads of "The Scarlet Letter": A Study of Hawthorne's Transformative Art (U of Delaware Press, 2003)
Other Publications:
Published on Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau in a variety of journals
Wrote the introduction and annotations for the Penguin edition of Poe's novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1999)
Edited Prospects for the Study of American Literature: A Guide for Scholars and Students (NYU Press, 1997) and co-edited the forthcoming second volume of Prospects (AMS Press).
Edited Poe's Pym: Critical Explorations (Duke University Press, 1992)
National Professional Service:
President-Elect, Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
Co-editor, Resources for American Literary Study
Past president, Poe Studies Association
