Profile Detail
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
OFFICE
Department of English113-G Satterfield
CONTACT INFO
Phone: 330-672-3211rtrogdon@kent.edu
COURSES TEACHING
Summer 2013- ENG 89199 - 010 Dissertation I
- ENG 89299 - 010 Dissertation Ii
- 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