Full-Time Faculty

Robert Combs
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1971

My teaching and research interests include American Drama, especially the plays of Eugene O’Neill, and short fiction from Poe to the present.

Book:

Vision of the Voyage: Hart Crane and the Psychology of Romanticism. Memphis: Memphis State UP, 1978.

Other Publications:

“The Importance of Being Henry James: What the Master Learned from Oscar Wilde,” in Henry James Against the Aesthetic Movement, ed. David Garrett Izzo and Daniel T. O’Hara. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 186-200.

“Internalizing Terror: Reflections of Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass in Pinter and Williams,” in Arthur Miller: Twentieth Century Legend, ed. Syed Mashkoor Ali. Jaipur (India): Surabhi Publications, 2006. 353-361.

“Affinities Between the Poetry of Hart Crane and the Plays of Eugene O’Neill,” in The Eugene O’Neill Review, Vol. 27, Fall 2005, pp. 51-60.

“Camus, O’Neill, and the Dead Mother Society,” in The Eugene O’Neill Review, Vol. 26, Spring, 2004, pp. 189-198.

“Oh, Those Kids! Vanishing Childhood Innocence in the Adults of William Inge,” in American Drama, Vol. 13, no. 2 (Summer 2004), pp. 64-81.