Robert Trogdon
Department of English
Department Chair/ Professor
Campus:
Kent
Biography
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.
Research
- Ernest Hemingway
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Bibliography
- Scholarly Editing
Education
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1996
Expertise
American Literature
Textual Editing
Bibliography
Book History
Publishing History
Publications
- 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.