Robert M. Dowling

Robert M. Dowling is associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University and a member of the editorial board of The Eugene O’Neill Review, the Board of Directors of the Eugene O’Neill Society, and Irish American Writers and Artists. He is author of Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem (2007) and the two-volume Critical Companion to Eugene O’Neill: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work (2009). His latest projects include a critical anthology on O’Neill’s bohemian and radical influences, co-edited with Eileen Herrmann, and American Contemporary Reviews: Eugene O’Neill, co-edited with Jackson R. Bryer. He is currently writing a biography on O’Neill for Yale University Press.

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