Overview
Roger Gilbert has taught at Cornell since 1987. His teaching and research focus on twentieth-century American poetry; he has also published essays on popular culture and aesthetics. His reviews of contemporary poetry appear regularly in Michigan Quarterly Review and other journals. He is the author of Walks in the World: Representation and Experience in Modern American Poetry (Princeton, 1991). He is currently writing a critical biography of the late poet and Cornell professor A. R. Ammons, about whom he also edited a special issue of EPOCH and co-edited a collection of essays.
Research Focus
- Contemporary Poetry
- Modern Poetry
- British Poetry
- American Literature
- Aesthetics
In the news
- A. R. Ammons Reading Series: Reviving a beloved tradition
- Wondering what to read in 2023? A&S faculty offer ideas
- ‘Ammons & the Falls’ highlights poet’s ties to Ithaca landscape
- Cornell community honors Toni Morrison with “The Bluest Eye” reading
- Harold Bloom ’51, literary critic of influence, dies at 89
- Colleagues celebrate A.R. Ammons in Temple of Zeus
- The Complete Archie
- Conference to celebrate 50 years of Dan Schwarz's teaching
- Cornell poet to kick off Botanic Gardens’ lecture series
- Alumni gift endows Picket Family Chair in English
ENGL Courses - Spring 2025
- ENGL 2755 : Birds, Beasts, and Bards: The Poetry of Animals
- ENGL 3460 : Nineteenth Century British and American Poetry: Wordsworth to Dickinson
- ENGL 4940 : Honors Essay Tutorial II