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Robert Trogdon

Professor, Department Chair

Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1996

Robert W. Trogdon is a scholar of 20th Century American Literature and Textual Editing. He has published extensively on the works of Ernest Hemingway and Joseph Conrad. Currently, Trogdon is serving as an editor on the Letters of Ernest Hemingway (Cambridge University Press). In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, shooting pool and watching football.

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
  • Trogdon, R. The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners and the Business of Literature. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2007.
  • The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume One: 1907-1922. Edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001.
  • “The Composition, Revision, Publication and Reception of Death in the Afternoon." A Companion to Ernest Hemingways Death in the Afternoon. Ed. Miriam Mandel. London: Camden House, 2004: 21-41.
  • “Money and Marriage: Hemingways Self-Censorship in For Whom the Bell Tolls.  Hemingway Review 22.2 (Spring 2003): 6-18. Reprinted in Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism. Ed. Linda Wagner-Martin. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2009: 337-51.
Research Areas
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Bibliography
  • Scholarly Editing
Affiliations

MLA
Ernest Hemingway Society
F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
Joseph Conrad Society of America
Bibliographical Society of America

Robert Trogdon
OFFICE
Department of English
113-G Satterfield
CONTACT INFO
Phone: 330-672-3211
rtrogdon@kent.edu
COURSES TEACHING
Spring 2013
  • HONR 40099 - 031 Senior Honors Thesis / Project
  • ENG 68096 - 001 Individual Investigation
  • ENG 78096 - 007 Individual Investigation
  • ENG 89199 - 006 Dissertation I
  • ENG 89299 - 015 Dissertation Ii
Summer 2013
  • ENG 89199 - 030 Dissertation I
  • ENG 89299 - 010 Dissertation Ii
Fall 2013
  • HONR 40099 - 003 Senior Honors Thesis / Project
  • ENG 66401 - 001 Literary Movements
  • ENG 76401 - 001 Literary Movements
  • ENG 89299 - 016 Dissertation Ii
EXPERTISE
  • 20th Century American Literature
  • Textual and Documentary Editing
  • Descriptive Bibliography
  • History of the Book