War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway’s Early Life and Writings

Contributors

352 CONTRIBUTORS ConTrIBuTors William Blazek is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at Liverpool Hope University. He coedited (with Michael K. Glenday) the essay collection American Mythologies: Essays on Contemporary Literature (Liverpool UP , 2005) and, with Laura Rattray, Twenty-First-Century Readings of Tender Is the Night (Liverpool UP , 2007). His recent publications include essays on Liverpool in American fiction, obscurity in the World War I writings of Edith Wharton, and masculine aesthetics in The Custom of the Country. He is also a founding coeditor of The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. Thomas G. Bowie Jr. served for twenty-eight years with the U.S. Air Force, including three assignments to the Department of English and Fine Arts at the Air Force Academy, where he served for four years as department chair. An expert on personal narratives of war experience, he served as an associate editor, then as the managing editor, of War, Literature, & the Arts, an international journal of the humanities. In 2004, he became director of the Honors Program at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. Lawrence R. Broer is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of South Florida and author of a number of books on American literature, including Hemingway’s Spanish Tragedy; Sanity Plea: Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut; Rabbit Tales: Poetry and Politics in John Updike’s Rabbit Novels; Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice; and Writers at War: Vonnegut’s Quarrel with Hemingway. Mark Cirino is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Evansville . He is the author of two novels and the coeditor of Ernest Hemingway 352 CONTRIBUTORS 353 and the Geography of Memory (2010). His articles on Hemingway have appeared in The Hemingway Review, The Mailer Review, and Papers on Language and Literature. Cirino serves as editor of the Kent State University Press series “Reading Hemingway.” Daniel M. Clayton is Associate Professor of History and Politics at Regis University and is the founder and director of the Regis University Center for the Study of War Experience, an educational program in public history whose archive contains several hundred hours of video-recorded testimonies of war veterans. He is currently working on a book based on these personal war narratives titled Stories From Wartime, from which the essay included in this volume derives. Dan is the son of a World War II combat veteran. John J. Fenstermaker is Fred L. Standley Professor of English, Emeritus at Florida State University, where he has served as English Chair and director of the Program in American and Florida Studies. His scholarship examines Hemingway’s life and work between the World Wars with a current focus on the Key West years. Recent publications include an essay in Kirk Curnett and Gail D. Sinclair, eds., Key West Hemingway: A Reassessment (2009) and an essay in Linda Wagner-Martin, ed., Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism (2009). He has served as president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association and of the South Atlantic ADE (Association of Departments of English). Matthew Forsythe received his PhD in English from the University of Georgia, and he also holds degrees from Calvin College and the University of Tennessee. His studies have included an emphasis in creative writing and American literature, and his dissertation, The Road to Nowhere: Sketches in Search of a Novel, takes place along the roads and trails of the Southern Appalachians. Matthew currently teaches in the English department at Rollins College. Jennifer Haytock is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at the SUNY College at Brockport. She is the author of two books, Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism (2008) and At Home, At War: Domesticity and World War I in American Literature (2003)—as well as essays on Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, John O’Hara, and Willa Cather. 354 CONTRIBUTORS Celia M. Kingsbury is Professor of English at the University of Central Missouri. She is the author of two books, The Peculiar Sanity of War: Hysteria in the Literature of World War One (2002) and For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front (2010). She has also published in Modern Fiction Studies, Cather Studies, and Conradiana. She is currently working on a project involving espionage during World War I. Ellen Andrews Knodt, Professor of English at Penn State University, the Abington College, has worked extensively with Hemingway manuscripts and letters at the John...