Grants

The Hemingway Society offers annual Lewis-Reynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship grants, an emerging scholar prize, and travel grants to graduate students and independent, unaffiliated, or disadvantaged scholars attending our conferences. We also advise on the JFK Library Hemingway Research Grant awarded each year. 

Suzanne del Gizzo

Suzanne del Gizzo is a Professor of English at Chestnut Hill College and editor of The Hemingway Review.  At Chestnut Hill, Suzanne teaches a variety of courses in American literature, gender studies, film, and writing.  She has published more than twenty articles in scholarly journals and has co-edited three books, Ernest Hemingway in Context (Cambridge UP, 2013) with Debra A. Moddelmog, Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden:  25 Years of Criticism (Kent State UP, 2012) with Frederic J.

2016 Modern Language Association Convention

Austin, Texas
January 7-10, 2016

Theme: Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, and Future
Who is the public for literature? This question is foundational to the work we do and to the state of our discipline and profession. Literature as a cultural category and a human activity, the place of literary studies in the humanities, the composition of the academic workforce, the Common Core State Standards Initiative—all these issues concern the MLA and involve a notion of our public.

Gail Sinclair

Gail Sinclair has served on the Hemingway board since 2008, as Vice President and Society treasurer, a role she recently handed off, for more than a decade, site director for the 2004 International Conference, and co-program director for the 2008 conference.

Joseph M. Flora

           Joseph (Joe) Flora, like Ernest Hemingway, was born and shaped in the American Midwest.   Graduating Phi Beta Kappa in English at the University of Michigan in 1956, he knew he did not want to leave the academy and remained in Ann Arbor to earn the Ph.D.   His first appointment was in the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a happy destination for a young scholar/teacher in American Literature.   From an apprenticeship that led to his professorship, Flora was honored to serve as associate dean of the Graduate School, to chair the English Departm