Robert Kay Gordon (1887–1973) was an English scholar of medieval and early modern English literature and administrator at the University of Alberta in Canada.
In 1936 he was appointed as head of the Department of English and became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada the same year.
Gordon is quoted extensively in The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges.
In the entry describing the Fastitocalon, Borges includes an extended quote from R.K. Gordon's Anglo Saxon Bestiary.
[1][2] Gordon published widely in his field of English literature, displaying a wide range of interest, from Old English poetry and Chaucer to the Scottish novelists Sir Walter Scott and John Galt.