Robert Willoughby Corrigan (23 September 1927 – 1 September 1993) was an American academic and the founding editor of the Carleton Drama Review which later became TDR: The Drama Review. Robert Willoughby Corrigan was born in Portage, Wisconsin, on 23 September 1927. His father was an Episcopal bishop. The younger Corrigan earned a bachelor's degree at Cornell University in 1950, followed by a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University two years later. In 1955, Corrigan completed a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Minnesota. He founded the Carleton Drama Review later that year shortly after joining the faculty of Carleton College. When Corrigan began teaching at Tulane University in 1957, the academic journal went with him and was renamed the Tulane Drama Review