Hugh Egan has been a member of the English department at Ithaca College since 1985. His primary field is American literature and he has particular teaching and research interests in literature of the sea, first-person voice, and authors James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He directed the Humanities and Sciences Honors Program from 1995 to 2001. Professor Egan has twice taught as a Fulbright lecturer in American literature--in Sweden (1992) and in Indonesia (2003). From 2010-2013, he served as Robert Ryan Professor of the Humanities.
Professor Egan also serves as the College's fellowship advisor for students seeking competitive external grants.
Current and recent courses
- Approaches to Literary Study
- Great American Writers Before 1890: Declarations of Independence, Revelations of Confinement
- Studies in American Literature: The Alienated Storyteller
- Introduction to Short Story: This American Life
RECENT ACTIVITY
James Fenimore Cooper, The Redskins. Edited, with Historical Introduction by Hugh Egan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2024.