Philip Furia, professor
Kenan Hall 1232 | 910.962.3321 | furiap@uncw.edu
Phil Furia teaches courses in creative nonfiction; writing biography; the art of the song lyric; forms of poetry, fiction, and dramatic writing; modern American poetry; the jazz age: literature, art, and music in New York, 1910-1940; Americans in Paris: Stein, Hemingway, Gershwin and other figures of the 1920s; American popular song lyrics, 1900-1950; the Broadway and Hollywood musical; the history of English lyric poetry and song.
Background
PhD, University of Iowa, 1970MFA, Iowa Writers Workshop, 1970
MA, University of Chicago, 1966
BA, Oberlin College, 1965
Publications
The Songs of Hollywood (co-author Laurie Patterson)
America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley
Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer
Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist
The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricist
