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POEcast: The Poe Studies Association PodcastEpisode 10 (with Richard Kopley)Richard Kopley joins me for an illuminating big picturediscussion of his major critical biography, Edgar Allan Poe: A Life (University of Virginia Press, 2025), a remarkable work of scholarly labor and love. We begin with a broad discussion of Richard’s view of his biography (1:07). We then move on to talk about the concept of genius (2:40), the letters of Flora Lapham Mack (used here for the first time) (6:05), the three major arcs that tie together the book (14:00), Poe’s relationships to alcohol and women (23:45), the role of the biographer (27:13), and some recommendations for teaching (32:08).2025-07-0135 min
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Restoration Church - Chicago, ILBooths at Restoration“There is no Suddenly for God, only Gradually”.
Caleb encouraged the church to trust God’s plans and purpose as well as His
timing and be faithful throughout the process. God works little by little
but we often tend to want it all at once. But God invites us to see the
bigger picture and rejoice in the process as he prepares us little by
little for His big plans!2024-06-1800 minPOEcast: The Poe Studies Association PodcastEpisode 5 (with Scott Peeples)Dr. Scott Peeples, Professor of English at the College of Charleston, joins me to talk about his recent book, The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City (Princeton University Press, 2020). We discuss the origins of the project and his previous work on Poe and place (1:19), the structure of the book and the focus on the city (13:34), some major arcs in his narrative (15:43), Poe and New York City (20:21), and the desperate itineracy that marked the last fifteen months of Poe’s life (25:49). We close by turning to the research and writing process (29:14), the evolving role of Michelle Va...2024-06-0339 minPOEcast: The Poe Studies Association PodcastEpisode 4 (with J. Gerald Kennedy)Dr. J. Gerald Kennedy, Emeritus Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University, joins me in an intriguing conversation about some of his major publications and edited collections and his upcoming cultural biography on Poe. (Our talk also includes shout-outs to our previous guests, Richard Kopley, Kelly Ross, Emron Esplin, and Margarida Vale de Gato!) We start with a discussion of Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing and its relation to his current work (1:15). We then turn to three of his “greatest hits”—Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race (18:10), Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of...2024-04-0159 min
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-Caleb Doan, host of POEcast2024-01-191h 03POEcast: The Poe Studies Association PodcastEpisode 2 (with Kelly Ross)In our second episode, I talk to Kelly Ross, Associate Professor at Rider University, about Poe and her critical triangulation of slavery, surveillance, and detective fiction, as detailed in her recent book, Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature (Oxford UP, 2023). Over the course of our conversation, we discuss the origins of her book (1:12); modes of detection (2:33); genre (9:02); the second chapter of her book, which comparatively analyzes The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and Charles Ball’s Slavery in the United States (11:04); Poe’s Dupin stories (22:00); “Hop-Frog” (29:58); her advice to researchers and writers (32:20); connections between antebellum period and toda...2023-11-1743 minPOEcast: The Poe Studies Association PodcastEpisode 1 (with Richard Kopley)In our first episode, I talk to Richard Kopley, Professor Emeritus of English at Penn State DuBois, about his upcoming critical biography Edgar Allan Poe: A Life, under contract with University of Virginia Press. In the interview, Richard discusses the primary inspiration for the project: a box of letters by Flora Lapham Mack (a member of the extended family of John H. MacKenzie, one of Poe’s lifelong friends) containing a series of stories about Poe previously unknown to the world (5:02). After previewing one of these new stories (10:02), we turn our attention to the research and writing process, focusing on...2023-09-1539 minPOEcast: The Poe Studies Association PodcastPOEcast TrailerWelcome to POEcast: The Poe Studies Association Podcast, where we discuss Edgar Allan Poe and track recent trends in Poe studies. In this trailer, Caleb Doan introduces listeners to the pod and previews the first episode with Dr. Richard Kopley, which will be available to stream on Friday, September 15, 2023.
This podcast is hosted by Dr. Caleb Doan, Visiting Professor of English at Grand Valley State University, and produced by GVSU's Digital Studio. Our intro and closing music comes from "The Raven" by Destroyer. For more information on the Poe Studies Association, please visit our website at https...2023-08-1701 min