Verna Kale

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The Pennsylvania State University
President (2026-2028)

Verna Kale is Associate Research Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University and Associate Editor of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway. She has published a critical biography, Ernest Hemingway, part of the Critical Lives series (Reaktion/University of Chicago Press, 2016), is editor of Teaching Hemingway and Gender, part of the Teaching Hemingway series (Kent State University Press, 2016), and editor of a classroom edition of The Sun Also Risespart of the Norton Library series (Norton, 2025).