Robert R. Morgan
Kappa Alpha Professor of English
Graduate Faculty Member
- Degrees
- University of North Carolina-Greensboro
M.F.A. - University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
B.A.
Bio
Robert Morgan has published eleven books of poetry, most recently The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems, 2004, three books of short fiction, and five novels, including Gap Creek, 1999, and Brave Enemies; A Novel of the American Revolution, 2003. In addition he is the author of a book of essays and interviews on poetry, Good Measure, 1993. His most recent book is Boone: A Biography, published in 2007, winner of the Kentucky Literary Award and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Arts Council, he has been awarded the Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers, The North Carolina Literary Award, the H. Parker Hunt Award, the Appalachian Heritage Award from Shepherd University, the Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Thomas Wolfe Prize and a Doctor of Letters Degree from his alma mater, UNC-Chapel Hill. Since 1971 he has taught at Cornell University, where he is now Kappa Alpha Professor of English. At Cornell he has taught both poetry and fiction writing, as well as American literature and modern poetry and poetics.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Creative Writing, both poetry and fiction
- Narrative Writing
- 19th Century American Poetry
- Contemporary British and American Poetry
- American Short Story
Current Projects
- a study of the Westward Expansion from Jefferson to James K. Polk
- new novel set in 1850
- new book of poems