Philip Furia

professor emeritus
Kenan Hall 1232 | 910.962.3321 | furiap@uncw.edu

Background

PhD, University of Iowa, 1970
MFA, Iowa Writers Workshop, 1970
MA, University of Chicago, 1966
BA, Oberlin College, 1965

The American Songbook, co-author Laurie Patterson (2015)
The Songs of Hollywood, co-author Laurie Patterson (2010)
America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, co-author Michael Lasser (2006)
Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer (2003)
Irving Berlin: A Life in Song (2001)
Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist (1997)
The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists (1992)
Pound's Cantos Declassified (1984)

Faculty Scholarship Award, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2006
Presented with the Key to the City of Savannah by Mayor Floyd Adams for Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer, the first biography of the Savannah-born songwriter, 2003.
Scholar of the College, University of Minnesota, 1991-94
Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, College of Continuing Education and Extension, 1989
Fulbright Professorship, University of Graz (Austria), 1982-83

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