Poe Studies Research Articles

Post-Occupancy Evaluation of a University Shopping Mall Facility

Abstract Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is a performance assessment methodology, which can be applied to determine the level of user satisfaction with any given facility. Since university shopping malls could have an impact on the students’ academic experience and well-being, it is of paramount significance that university shopping mall facilities are designed and operated to the highest standards. The Extensive literature review highlighted the lack of POE studies for assessing the quality of shopping mall facilities. This study aims at addressing this gap, by presenting the findings of an investigative POE of a university shopping mall facility. The Literature review was conducted pertaining to the technical and functional performance requirements of shopping malls. Twenty-nine performance indicators were identified for shopping mall facilities. These were grouped under five categories, namely building performance, safety and security, proximity and accessibility, space planning and layout, and mall services. A questionnaire survey was developed based on the identified performance indicators. The survey was administered to obtain the students’ feedback on the university shopping mall facility. In addition, a walkthrough tour of the mall facility was performed to identify issues, which can be immediately recognized. Finally, a plan of action was developed to improve the performance of the shopping mall facility. The study is beneficial to planners, architects and facilities managers of such facilities.

Post-occupancy Evaluation Study of the Impact of Daylighting and Electric Lighting in the Workplace

ABSTRACTPost-occupancy evaluations (POEs) have been recognized for documenting occupants’ well-being and responses to indoor environmental quality (IEQ) factors such as thermal, lighting, and acoustic conditions. The Sustainable Post-Occupancy Evaluation Survey (SPOES), an online questionnaire, provides a quantitative analysis of occupants’ satisfaction in workplace, classroom, and residence hall buildings. This article analyzes occupants’ (n = 886) perceptions of daylighting and electric lighting from POE studies conducted across 13 workplace buildings. Further analysis was conducted to explore occupants’ perceptions of how daylighting and electric lighting affect their health and work performance. The results indicated that occupants were more satisfied with the amount of lighting than the adjustability of lighting and that the amount of lighting had a stronger association with overall lighting satisfaction than the adjustability of lighting. Regarding perception of work performance and health, the adjustability of lighting, visual comfort, and quality of task lighting are strongly associated. Lastly, the proximity of occupants’ primary workspaces to a window also affects lighting satisfaction. These results show that lighting as an IEQ factor is clearly related to the amount and adjustability of both daylighting and electric lighting.

From the Editor

From the Editor

Poe Studies Association Updates

Research Article| May 01 2019 Poe Studies Association Updates The Edgar Allan Poe Review (2019) 20 (1): 169–170. https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.20.1.0169 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Poe Studies Association Updates. The Edgar Allan Poe Review 1 May 2019; 20 (1): 169–170. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.20.1.0169 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe Edgar Allan Poe Review Search Advanced Search Since the last issue, many Poe-related activities have taken place. The Poe Studies Association's panel at the MLA Convention, “Poe and Trauma,” featured three scholars’ research. On January 19, crowds gathered in Baltimore at Westminster Hall and in Richmond at the Poe Museum to celebrate the 210th anniversary of Poe's birth. Last October, the inaugural Poe Fest International took place in Baltimore, coinciding with the 169th anniversary of Poe's death. If you are on the PSA Listserv, you have already received a call for entries for this year's Saturday Visiter awards.In the wake of these events, the PSA now turns its attention to awarding the Patrick F. Quinn Award for an outstanding monograph on Poe, the James W. Gargano Award for an outstanding article, and the J. Lasley Dameron Award for an outstanding bibliography or essay collection, and to our two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in... You do not currently have access to this content.

The impact of interior design on visual discomfort reduction: A field study integrating lighting environments with POE survey

This paper presents a POE study integrated with physical lighting quantities in an open-plan office. The southwest-facing office has external overhangs and internal mechoshades as the solar controls. However, 65.9% of the participants in the office still complain about daylighting glare at their workstations. Aiming to improve indoor environmental quality, a renovated layout is constructed in a section of the office. The office results in two types of layouts, the original and renovated ones, in addition to three window heights. The research uses mixed methods to explore the environmental variations that influenced occupants' lighting experience and investigate the effectiveness of the renovated layout in terms of glare reduction. HDR image techniques are utilized for field measurements and calibration of a simulation model. The questionnaire generated based on the interviews with occupants is distributed to the office. The calibrated simulation model presents annual daylighting performance outside of data collection periods. The results show that taller windows, seating orientations towards windows, and adjacent to windows lead to more glare for occupants. Although replacing the original cubicle workstations with more open workstations allows more daylighting penetration and prolongs the annual glare duration in the renovated layout, more accessible outside views and flexible furniture designs increase occupants' tolerance of glare and satisfaction with daylighting environments. This research demonstrates the effectiveness of utilizing multiple methods to comprehensively assess daylighting qualities in open-plan offices. It also demonstrates the important role interior designs play in creating comfortable daylighting environments.

Poe Studies Association Updates

Research Article| November 01 2017 Poe Studies Association Updates The Edgar Allan Poe Review (2017) 18 (2): 292–295. https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.18.2.0292 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Poe Studies Association Updates. The Edgar Allan Poe Review 1 November 2017; 18 (2): 292–295. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.18.2.0292 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe Edgar Allan Poe Review Search Advanced Search Important PSA tasks are handled by appointed committees that deserve recognition and gratitude. The process of nominating books, articles, bibliographies, and edited collections for 2016 award consideration was handled by Jana Argersinger (Chair), Paul C. Jones, and Russell Sbriglia. The process of creating a preliminary slate of candidates for the upcoming 2018 election of PSA officers was managed by John Gruesser and William E. Engel. For important information about the election process, see Travis Montgomery's note below.As excitement builds for the upcoming Poe and Hawthorne conference in Kyoto, Japan, I want to thank both Sandy Hughes, president of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society and the organizer of the conference, and the members of the academic committee, Philip Phillips (Chair) and Richard Kopley, for the time and effort they have put into this demanding project.At the PSA business meeting last May, we discussed strategies for making our listserv more interactive... You do not currently have access to this content.

Poe Studies Association Updates

Research Article| April 01 2017 Poe Studies Association Updates The Edgar Allan Poe Review (2017) 18 (1): 94–96. https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.18.1.0094 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Poe Studies Association Updates. The Edgar Allan Poe Review 1 April 2017; 18 (1): 94–96. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.18.1.0094 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe Edgar Allan Poe Review Search Advanced Search I am writing this about a week before Poe's 208th birthday, an event celebrated in cities around the country and the world. On that very day, January 19, fortuitous timing allowed the PSA to launch our new website. If you haven't visited the site yet, you can do so now by going to https://www.poestudiesassociation.org/. In addition to the new domain name, the updated site adjusts when the screen changes shape, allowing easy viewing on all devices. As always, the site includes essential information about the organization's history, publications, awards, membership, and bylaws.Also happening now—but closing before this issue of the Review is printed—is a Poe exhibition at the George Peabody Library, The Enigmatic Edgar Allan Poe in Baltimore and Beyond: Selections from the Susan Jaffe Tane Collection. Organized around the cities where Poe lived and superbly curated by Gabrielle Dean, the exhibition tells the story of Poe's... You do not currently have access to this content.

Stuart Levine (1932–2016)

Stuart Levine (1932–2016)

近十年国内埃德加•爱伦•坡研究综述

本文梳理分析了近十年国内爱伦•坡小说和诗歌研究情况，认为多数研究聚焦经典作品、死亡主题及对比研究，同质化现象较为突出。但与此同时，研究范围和深度也有所拓展，如之前较少受到关注的幽默类科幻类作品开始进入视野，研究主题和视角也呈现出多样化趋势，如对爱伦•坡作品中的空间叙事、空间表征、美国性等问题的关注。未来国内爱伦•坡研究或向进一步多元化和深度整合的方向发展。 Through combing and analyzing studies of Edgar Allan Poe in China in recent ten years, this paper points out that while many studies repeat earlier ones with their focuses on Poe’s classics, the theme of death and comparative studies, there are researches which substantially expand the scope and depth of Poe studies. The most notable ones are those studies on Poe’s humorous novels and science fiction, which were largely ignored by critics, and other diversified new approaches to Poe studies, such as narrative space, spatial representation and Americanness in Poe’s works. In the future, domestic research on Poe may head towards the direction of further diversification and deep integration.

Honorary Membership Citations

Honorary Membership is the highest award given to a member by our association, and it is intended to recognize significant, sustained, and ongoing contributions to Poe studies and to the Poe Studies Association. Harry Lee Poe has contributed significantly to our organization, and he continues to advance Poe studies through his various activities. It was, therefore, my great pleasure as PSA president to present this award to him on December 2, 2015, at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, where he is Charles Colson Chair of Faith and Culture.A descendent of Edgar Poe's cousin William Poe, Harry Lee Poe has dedicated considerable time and effort to collecting books and other materials related to Poe, which he generously shares through special exhibitions at libraries and conferences for the benefit of students, scholars, and the general public. He has also written books, including Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories (New York: Metro Books, 2008)—winner of the Edgar Award presented by the Mystery Writers of America in 2009 and nominated for the Agatha Award—and Evermore: Edgar Allan Poe and the Mystery of the Universe (Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2012), as well as articles and reviews on a wide variety of Poe-related subjects.Professor Poe has advanced Poe studies locally, nationally, and internationally while serving as president (2001–2007, 2008–2013) of the Poe Museum of Richmond, directing the Poe Young Writers Conference, Richmond, 2004–2013, and codirecting the Positively Poe Conference (with Alexandra Urakova) at the University of Virginia, 2013. He has delivered numerous public lectures and participated as an invited speaker at various colloquia, most recently at the SymPOEsium on PLACE at Middle Tennessee State University. He has also presented academic papers at such conferences as the American Scientific Affiliation Annual Meeting (Baylor University, 2009), the International Research Conference on the Edgar Allan Poe Legacy and the Twenty-First Century, Russian National Library (Saint Petersburg, 2009), the Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference (Philadelphia, 2009), the Fourth International Poe Conference (New York, 2015), and the International Conference on Poe, Emerson, and Hawthorne (Florence, 2012).Professor Poe is richly deserving of this recognition for these and many other notable contributions to Poe studies, namely, his mentorship of younger Poe scholars and his generous collaborations with more seasoned ones. Whenever he is with a group of people, whether peers or students, Professor Poe finds ways to acknowledge and support the achievements and aspirations of others. He has a way of bringing people together in the most convivial ways, and, whether the organizer of or a participant in a Poe-related event, he brings out the very best of those around him.Shoko Itoh, Professor Emeritus at Hiroshima University, has been a Poe scholar for forty-eight years. Her 1968 M.A. thesis at Hiroshima University concerned “Metamorphosis of Poe's Muse: An Introduction,” and since that time, she has published extensively on Poe, including the influential 1987 book A Road to Arnheim: The World of Edgar Allan Poe and numerous journal articles and book chapters on Poe, more recently with an ecocritical focus. She also translated into Japanese, and annotated, Poe's poems “Tamerlane” and “Al Aaraaf,” and coauthored, with Takayuki Tatsumi, The Japanese Face of Poe. She received her Ph.D. from Hiroshima University in 1997; her teaching career includes two Fulbright scholarships (at Brown University and the University of Virginia) and forty-four years as a faculty member at Notre Dame Seishin College, Hiroshima University, and Matsuyama University. She has been a leader among Japanese scholars of the American Renaissance, mentoring such Poe, Hawthorne, and Thoreau scholars as Kazuhiko Tsuji, Mitsuyo Kido, Hiroshi Shiota, and Kyoko Matsunaga. She was one of the founders of the Japan Poe Society, which sponsors annual conferences on the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, and she has edited its newsletter. She is now the society's vice president. Moreover, she is a regular and welcome participant in Poe conferences abroad. Shoko Itoh has been an important Poe scholar internationally for many years; the Poe Studies Association is very pleased and proud to award her Honorary Membership.

J. Lasley Dameron (1926–2016)

[We begin this obituary with a notice written by Lasley himself; following that, we include a tribute by Benjamin F. Fisher.]Dr. John Lasley Dameron, ninety years old, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Memphis, passed away at the Baptist Reynolds Hospice House on June 27, 2016. Born in Burlington, North Carolina, he was the third child of Judge E. S. W. Dameron, Sr., and Lola Lasley Dameron. Reared in Burlington with his late brother, E. S. W. Dameron, Jr., who became an attorney at law, Dr. Dameron attended the University of North Carolina and graduated with a B.S. in commerce in 1950 and an M.A. in English in 1952. During World War II he served with the U.S. Navy as a hospital corpsman from 1943 to 1945. He was assigned for several months to the Third Marine Division and in February 1945 participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima. From 1953 to 1955 he served as instructor of English at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia, and in 1962 he was awarded a Ph.D. in English from the University of Tennessee.In the fall of 1962 Dr. Dameron joined the English Department of Memphis State University, retiring in 1991. Throughout his academic career he published and edited articles and books on nineteenth-century American writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. He continued his research after his retirement and remained active in several scholarly organizations. He once served as president of the international Poe Studies Association from 1978 to 1980.Dr. Dameron was an avid tennis player. He and his wife of sixty-six years, Elizabeth Virginia Eaddy Dameron, each won several local and regional tennis championships. They have two sons: Dr. George Williamson Dameron, Professor of History at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, and John Edgar Dameron, activity director at the Lodge, a retirement home in Carson City, Nevada. Dr. Dameron and his wife also have two grandsons and six great-grandchildren.The death of Lasley Dameron (who ordinarily used his middle name in introducing himself, thus honoring his mother's maiden name) brings to an end the senior generation of founding members of the PSA. The organization actually exists because of a discussion during an MLA conference in Chicago in 1971 between Lasley and Jim Gargano. From their desire to establish an umbrella organization for Poe scholars, the PSA was born. Officially begun in 1972, the PSA continues to thrive today, nearly a half century later.After serving as the PSA's vice president during Eric Carlson's presidency, Lasley was elected president and served in that capacity from 1978 to 1980. Considering that the name of Poe often evokes strong opinions and strident exchanges, Lasley's was always a voice that counseled graciousness and calm. Although he authored many studies of Poe, Lasley's chief contribution to Poe studies is perhaps the bibliography of writings about Poe that he and Irby B. Cauthen published. This book reminds us that work about Poe abounds. Lasley was particularly interested in Poe as magazinist and in Poe's sources. Although Poe was not Lasley's sole interest (the writings of Emerson and Hawthorne were two other strong enthusiasms), his contributions to Poe studies maintain great value for those engaging that field.Lasley will remain in memory as a genuine gentleman and scholar.

Transatlantic Poe: Eliot, Williams, and Huxley, Readers of the French Poe

Transatlantic Poe: Eliot, Williams, and Huxley, Readers of the French Poe

Poe Studies Association Updates

Research Article| November 01 2016 Poe Studies Association Updates The Edgar Allan Poe Review (2016) 17 (2): 236–238. https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.17.2.0236 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Poe Studies Association Updates. The Edgar Allan Poe Review 1 November 2016; 17 (2): 236–238. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.17.2.0236 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe Edgar Allan Poe Review Search Advanced Search Dr. J. Lasley Dameron—one of the founding members of the PSA and honorary member of the PSA since 1988—passed away at the age of ninety on June 27, 2016, in Memphis, Tennessee. His obituary is included in this issue.As a tribute to Professor Dameron and at the urging of Richard Kopley, the Executive Committee voted to create a third award, named in honor of Dr. Dameron. This award will be given to an editor or editors of an excellent Poe essay collection or a compiler or compilers of an excellent Poe bibliography in a given year. The J. Lasley Dameron Award will complement the Patrick F. Quinn Award, given to the authors of the best monographs on Poe, and the James W. Gargano Award, given to the authors of the best articles on Poe.On a related matter, at the PSA business meeting in late May, Carole Shaffer-Koros reported... You do not currently have access to this content.

Poe Studies Association Updates

Dr. J. Lasley Dameron—one of the founding members of the PSA and honorary member of the PSA since 1988—passed away at the age of ninety on June 27, 2016, in Memphis, Tennessee. His obituary is included in this issue.As a tribute to Professor Dameron and at the urging of Richard Kopley, the Executive Committee voted to create a third award, named in honor of Dr. Dameron. This award will be given to an editor or editors of an excellent Poe essay collection or a compiler or compilers of an excellent Poe bibliography in a given year. The J. Lasley Dameron Award will complement the Patrick F. Quinn Award, given to the authors of the best monographs on Poe, and the James W. Gargano Award, given to the authors of the best articles on Poe.On a related matter, at the PSA business meeting in late May, Carole Shaffer-Koros reported that the Quinn Award Fund, having declined gradually over the years, needed to be restored. Fortunately, this year the PSA began to receive royalties from Penn State Press for the Edgar Allan Poe Review. After some consideration, the Executive Committee voted to use royalties earned over the next three years to restore the Quinn Fund.Looking ahead, the Program Committee for the 2018 International Poe and Hawthorne Conference in Kyoto, Japan, has issued a call for papers found on the back cover of this issue. It is not too early to think about the research you'd like to share.On Saturday, January 7, 2017, the Poe Studies Association will hold its session at the annual MLA convention in Philadelphia. For more details on this session, please see “Abstracts for the PSA Panel at MLA 2017” in this issue.At the upcoming ALA Conference in Boston (May 25–28, 2017), one of the Poe Studies Association's panels will focus on Poe in light of anthologies. Earning a living as a professional writer for newspapers and magazines, Poe was constantly occupied with publishing enterprises, and he had his own ideas about anthologizing others (the monumental The Living Writers of America) as well as himself (Tales of the Folio Club, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, The Raven and Other Poems). Poe was obsessed with displaying both unity and diversity in his body of work, and that literary corpus was both dismantled and reconstructed during his lifetime and afterward by several influential editors. According to Alan C. Golding's From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry, Poe was hardly ranked in the most influential poetry anthologies of his time, but his tales appeared regularly in gift books, newspaper yearbooks, and the like. He arguably, and somewhat ironically, secured his polemic afterlife by trusting Rufus W. Griswold, one of the few who acknowledged his merits from the very first edition of The Poets and Poetry of America in 1842, with the posthumous compilation of his writings.Internationally, figures like John Henry Ingram, Charles Baudelaire, and Jorge Luis Borges all created distinct Poe canons, influencing readerships in different directions. To this day, Poe remains a favorite in certain genre or thematic anthologies—horror stories, detective fiction, science fiction, Gothic narratives, tales of mystery and madness, stories about death and dementia—while new combinations and selections of his works (fugitive writings, humorous tales, hoaxes, parodies) market his image in revisionist ways. This panel is interested in papers that wrestle with how Poe's texts have been collected and anthologized in various literary traditions in both English and translation, and we hope the panel will create a dialogue between different approaches to the subject, including context-oriented, historicist, world or global literature–based, and translation-minded scholarship.This panel has been designed by Emron Esplin and Margarida Vale de Gato of the University of Lisbon, and it will be chaired by Emron Esplin. Please send questions or queries to emron_esplin@byu.edu. Submissions should also be sent to emron_esplin@byu.edu by January 15, 2017, with a subject line “PSA Panel 2017.”As of July 26, 2016, the Association has 293 members. The current balance of our checking account is $16,239.76. This includes $5,023.03 for the Gargano Award and $1,465.00 for the Quinn Award. Additionally, the Association has two CDs: $5,023.03 and $1,066.05. To allow for the CDs to mature, funds for our awards at present are being drawn from the general checking account. The current cumulative value of our treasury is $22,328.84.Next spring, we will hold an election for PSA treasurer. Dr. Carole Shaffer-Koros has agreed to stand for reelection, but additional nominations will be considered. To submit a nomination, send the name of the nominee to Travis Montgomery (mailing address: Dr. Travis Montgomery, Department of Language and Literature, Oklahoma Christian University, 2501 E. Memorial Rd., Edmond, OK 73013; e-mail address: travis.montgomery@oc.edu) no later than February 1, 2017. The election will follow, and the result will be announced on April 1, 2017.

Honorary Membership Citations

Honorary Membership Citations

Poe Studies Association Updates

Ave atque vale. Before saying farewell as your PSA president, I would like to extend my greetings to all and begin by recognizing some of our most distinguished PSA members for their notable achievements.I am pleased to announce that Harry Lee Poe (Union University) and Skoko Itoh (Hiroshima University), who had been nominated by the PSA Executive Committee, were duly elected by the PSA membership as Honorary Members of the Poe Studies Association for 2015 for their important and sustained service to our organization and their significant contributions to Poe scholarship.It is also my pleasure to announce the recipients of our two PSA publication awards. The Patrick F. Quinn Award, established in 1999 by a gift from Mrs. Shirley Quinn and supplemented by family and friends, goes to Barbara Cantalupo for her impressive study Poe and the Visual Arts (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014). The James W. Gargano Award, established in 2002 by Mrs. Margaret Gargano and Stephen Loewentheil, goes to Jerome McGann for his outstanding essay “‘The Bells,’ Performance, and the Politics of Poetry,” Edgar Allan Poe Review 15, no. 1 (2014): 47–58. I am grateful to the members of the Quinn and Gargano Nominating Committee and to the PSA Executive Committee for the commitment of time and expertise required to nominate and select our award winners from such a competitive pool of scholarship.Please remember to mark June 21–24, 2018, on your calendars. In cooperation with representatives of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society and both the Hawthorne and Poe Societies of Japan, the Poe Studies Association will hold its next international conference in Kyoto. Sandy Hughes will serve as conference chair, and I will serve as the program chair. Please stay posted for further details and a call for papers.It has been an honor for me to serve as president of the Poe Studies Association over the past two years. I am especially grateful to those who served with me on the PSA Executive Committee—Vice President Paul Lewis, Secretary Amy Branam Armiento, Treasurer Carole Shaffer-Koros, Members-at-Large William E. Engel and Travis Montgomery, Immediate Past President John Gruesser, and Edgar Allan Poe Review Editor Barbara Cantalupo—as well as those members who participated actively in our meetings and sessions at the ALA, MLA, and Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference in New York. It has been an exciting time for Poe studies, from the installation of Stefanie Rocknak's statue of Poe Returning to Boston in 2014 and our international conference in New York in 2015 to our plans to hold our next international conference in Kyoto, Japan, in 2018. Much remains to be done, and I am looking forward to working alongside our newly elected officers and the PSA membership in the years ahead.I am composing this final message as vice president a week after chairing our MLA panel in Austin on Poe biography. Looking back, I would like to thank the many panelists and respondents who helped make our recent MLA sessions interesting. I would also like to commend Philip Phillips and the other PSA officers and Executive Committee members who have served during my years as vice president. Looking forward to the upcoming PSA elections and my campaign for the presidency, I promise to avoid the overheated rhetoric rife in U.S. politics. For instance, I will not call for the deportation of Longfellow scholars or advocate building walls around Poe historic sites and requiring the Emerson Society to pay for them. Oh, I may entertain such ideas late at night as I hearken “to the death-watches in the wall,” but the sunrise brings brighter thoughts. Like the narrator of “The Premature Burial,” I snap out of it, go abroad, take vigorous exercise, and breathe “the free air of heaven.” Here's hoping that you can dismiss your “charnel apprehensions” in this way, too.

Poe Studies Association Updates

Research Article| November 01 2015 Poe Studies Association Updates The Edgar Allan Poe Review (2015) 16 (2): 254–257. https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.16.2.0254 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Poe Studies Association Updates. The Edgar Allan Poe Review 1 November 2015; 16 (2): 254–257. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.16.2.0254 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe Edgar Allan Poe Review Search Advanced Search The Poe Studies Association held its annual business meeting at the Twenty-Sixth American Literature Association Conference at the Westin Copley Place, Boston, on May 21, 2015. At the opening of the meeting, the officers and members joined me in thanking Barbara Cantalupo and Richard Kopley for their outstanding service to the PSA as cochairs of the recent Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference in New York City.Poe and Hawthorne in Japan: I am pleased to announce that the PSA Executive Committee voted unanimously to hold our next International Conference in Kyoto, Japan, in partnership with Nathaniel Hawthorne Society. The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society will not join us as a partner this time, but some of its members may participate in the conference. Richard Kopley and I will represent the Poe Studies Association on the Program Committee and work closely with Sandy Hughes, President-Elect of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society,... Issue Section: Features You do not currently have access to this content.

Obituary

John E. Reilly (1928–2015), one of the founding members of the Poe Studies Association, Honorary PSA Member, and emeritus professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross, died on October 28, 2014, and is buried in Notre Dame Cemetery in Worcester, Massachusetts. A member of the American Antiquarian Society and on the editorial boards of Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism and the Edgar Allan Poe Review, Dr. Reilly was also a lector, a Eucharistic minister, a member of the Liturgy Committee, the choir, and the Parish Council in St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Worcester.Those who knew John remember him as an affable, kind, and generous man whose interest in Poe continued his whole life. We welcomed his participation at the bicentennial Poe conference in Philadelphia in 2009 where he chaired two panels: one on “Hidden Contexts” and the other on “Humor,” both interests of Dr. Reilly's. “The Lesser Death-Watch and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’” published in one of the first issues of American Transcendental Quarterly deals quite literally with a hidden context and now appears at the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore's website, http://www.eapoe.org/papers/misc1921/jer19691.htm. We can also find Reilly's “Poe in American Drama: Versions of the Man,” http://www.eapoe.org/papers/psbbooks/pb19861d.htm, and “The Image of Poe in American Poetry,” http://www.eapoe.org/papers/psblctrs/pl19751.htm, there as well. For an intimate look at Dr. Reilly's academic career in his own words and a complete list of his works on Poe, see my 2000 “Interview with John Reilly” in the Edgar Allan Poe Review.

A Backward Glance over Some Leading Citizens in the Poe World

Having grown up, academically speaking, in the shadow of Arthur Hobson Quinn, who lived roughly half an hour from my college, Ursinus, and with so many of my college teachers having studied their American literature at the University of Pennsylvania, where Quinn was supreme when American literature was still a fairly new subject in university instruction, and now with myself looking like I might well be a contemporary of Quinn, or even Poe and John Greenleaf Whittier, and being from a family in which genealogy was important, it may be natural that I should represent historical memory and share my recollections of some persons who pioneered in and opened up Poe studies. Some may be surprised to learn that Professor Quinn was, first and foremost, not a Poe specialist, but that his preeminent scholarly love was American drama. For pre-twentieth-century American plays, Quinn’s studies typically remain, after nearly a century, almost the only informed commentaries. Many have become increasingly aware that William Dunlap, America’s first major playwright, and the novelist Charles Brockden Brown, might each properly be deemed the Adam to American literary Gothicism. To return to Professor Quinn: when I began my own academic studies, he was in his eighties, ill, and housebound. He spent most of his time nestled in a chair, swathed in blankets and quilts, and wearing a sun shade, claiming that reading so many early American plays had ruined his eyesight. Before such ills befell him, Quinn was active in having established the Clothier Collection of American Drama at the University of Pennsylvania, which remains one of the foremost collections of early American plays. The Poe interest emerged from Quinn’s own work in American drama—Poe’s parents being actors—and from his aim to furnish an accurate biographical portraiture of Poe which would demolish the long-standing depiction by Rufus Griswold. Spending more than twenty years in preparing that biography, which appeared first in 1941 but has stood the test of time well enough to go through several reprintings, Quinn achieved a solid narrative account, though many of his critical opinions have been modified or superseded in the work of others. A Quinn student, J. Albert Robbins, followed his mentor’s practices in determining to present factually accurate scholarship, as some early volumes in the American Literary Scholarship journal attest. Robbins often recounted to me anecdotes of his days as Quinn’s student. Those who know Quinn primarily for

Obituary Joseph V. Ridgely (1921–2014)

Longtime member of the PSA, Joseph V. Ridgely, Emeritus Professor of English, Columbia University, died September 27, 2014, in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he had resided for many years, commuting via train to Columbia University. Ridgely was a longtime specialist in Southern writers and writing; his books include Nineteenth-century Southern Literature (University of Kentucky Press, 1980), John Pendleton Kennedy (Twayne, 1966), and William Gilmore Simms (Twayne, 1962). He also performed great service to Poe studies by assisting Burton Pollin with the volume on the Southern Literary Messenger, in the Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, for which Pollin served as editor-in-chief. This book was Number 5 in the series. During his long teaching career, Ridgely offered seminars on Poe. In those classes and others, Ridgely inspired generations of students, who enjoyed the course topics and the professor. Although he was long retired, he continued to communicate with and unhesitatingly furnished assistance to seasoned and novice scholars alike. His scholarly enthusiasm and humor will be greatly missed.