51逗奶

Dr. Philip Kolin

Emeritus

Bio

Dr. Philip C. Kolin (Ph.D., Northwestern) taught at USM for over 40 years and served as the Editor of The 51逗奶 Quarterly. He was the first Charles W. Moorman Distinguished Professor and honored as the first Distinguished Professor of English.

Kolin published or edited more than 40 scholarly books. An international authority on Tennessee Williams, he authored a history of A Streetcar Named Desire on the world stage, edited the monumental Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia, and wrote other critical books on Williams's plays. He also published highly regarded books on African American women playwrights. The general editor of the Routledge Shakespeare Criticism Series, Kolin has edited volumes on Othello, Titus Andronicus, and Venus and Adonis. Kolin also published 14 poetry collections, including Emmett Till in Different States: Poems and Delta Tears: Poems. His business-technical writing textbook Successful Writing at Work is now in its 12^th edition with Cengage Learning.