This year, Society members will elect two candidates to serve three-year terms.
Below in alphabetical order, you will find statements for the four candidates who are running for the two open positions. Please review these statements carefully keeping in mind that the Hemingway Society Board is a working board.
Voting will open on Friday, November 1, until Monday, December 2 at 11:59 pm.
After reviewing the statements, members in good standing can vote by clicking on one of the "Vote" buttons below.
NOTE: You will need to log in to your Society membership account to be able to vote.
The candidates are:
Sharon Hamilton
I am a professional writer with a Ph.D. in English who has taught classes on literature at universities in Austria, Italy, Canada, and the United States (including a class on Hemingway and Fitzgerald at Georgetown University), and a devoted Hemingway researcher. I have contributed to Hemingway scholarship through chapters in Teaching Hemingway and Modernism and in Robert K. Elder’s wonderful examination of Hemingway in Comics. Forthcoming work on Hemingway includes thoughts on his relationship with H. L. Mencken in All Hem’s Literary Friends, edited by Sean Hadley, and a chapter on “Hemingway and Canada” in the forthcoming The Routledge Companion to Ernest Hemingway, edited by Verna Kale.
I’m also a current member of the Hemingway Society board; during my time on the board, I have participated in media committee projects and planning, have served as a Nomination Committee Chair, and have regularly contributed to The Hemingway Review Blog. I hope that my blog articles on Hemingway and Hadley’s Chicago apartment, his early fiction in the New Orleans Double Dealer, the baseball ticket stub he took with him to war, and on the birth of his first son—along with co-authored posts on such things as an AI version of Hemingway, a visit to a bullet-hole filled bar in Wyoming once frequented by Ernest and on a stained glass window in Michigan dedicated to him by a beloved sister—have been found by the Society’s members to be informative and fun.
My experience serving as a board member has been a great pleasure. Now, I am seeking re-election.
When I was elected to the Hemingway Society board in 2021, I promised the Society’s membership that as the board’s only Canadian member, I would use my tenure to highlight Hemingway’s connections to Canada. I have worked to fulfill that promise by delivering a webinar on "Hemingway in Toronto" and a presentation on Hemingway and Hadley’s 1923 Christmas in Toronto to the Society’s members. I have also written articles on Hemingway for Canada’s premier book review journal the Literary Review of Canada (examples here and here), and prepared a Hemingway Review blog on Hadley’s experiences as a new mother in Canada.
If elected for a second term, my goal is to continue to create excitement about Hemingway and his literary legacy and to promote further awareness of the Hemingway Society, especially for a new generation of Hemingway fans, including those outside the United States. To that end, I am on the planning committee for a possible 2026 Hemingway Society Conference in Toronto.
Ross K. Tangedal
I am Associate Professor of English and Director of the Cornerstone Press at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, where I specialize in American print & publishing culture, bibliography, textual editing, and authorship studies. I am the author of The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021; featuring a chapter on Hemingway) and editor of Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell (Michigan State UP, 2023), Editing the Harlem Renaissance (Clemson UP, 2021), and the forthcoming Good Country: Ernest Hemingway and the American West (University of Nevada P, 2025). I have published widely on Ernest Hemingway, with essays in The Hemingway Review, Teaching Hemingway and Race, Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World, The Handbook of the American Short Story, MidAmerica, and One True Sentence, and I’ve been interviewed on One True Podcast and participated as a panelist during the “Dangerous Summer” webinar series.
I have been a member of the core editorial team of the Hemingway Letters Project since 2020, where I am now an associate volume editor (my first credit being volume 6, released by Cambridge UP, 2024). I had the privilege to serve as assistant program coordinator of the 19th Biennial Hemingway Society Conference in Wyoming and Montana (my home state) in July 2022, where I was responsible for program logistics, panel organization, and on-site troubleshooting with site coordinators. I am a two-time recipient of the Lewis-Reynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship (and currently serve on the selection committee), a JFK Library Hemingway Grant recipient, and a reader for The Hemingway Review, where I have been appointed to succeed Kelli Larson as bibliographer beginning in November 2024. I have presented at Hemingway conferences in Petoskey, Oak Park, and Sheridan/Cooke City, as well as at multiple meetings of the American Literature Association.
My experience in event programming, video conferencing, conference planning, financial management, membership communications, and grants/awards will hopefully assist the society as it continues to grow into the future. My favorite Hemingway novel is The Sun Also Rises (though The Old Man and the Sea continues to grow on me), and picking a favorite short story is next to impossible: the Nick Adams stories remain close to me, as does “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” I live in central Wisconsin with my wife, CJ, and our three kids: Adeline, Hazel, and Charlie.
Edward "Mac" Test
I would be delighted to serve on the Board of the Hemingway Society! I have been a member of the Hemingway Society since 2021.
am a Professor at Boise State University in the Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing, where I teach literature, translation, theatre, creative writing, and annually teach a Hemingway Seminar for Honors Students. I also direct the Hemingway Center on Boise State’s Campus (founded in 1986), which runs a Writing Retreat in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, and holds lectures, readings, and performances at the Hemingway Building. We are also affiliated with the annual Hemingway Seminar in Ketchum, Idaho, where I have delivered several talks on Hemingway’s work over the years. This summer, I attended the International Hemingway Conference in the Basque country where I delivered a talk on the use of Spanish in For Whom the Bell Tolls, and chaired a panel about Martha Gellhorn. I was also recently asked to review a submission for The Hemingway Review.
I will bring to the Hemingway Society Board some youthful verve and fresh insights through my abundance of Board-type experience. I am currently the Vice-Chair of the Idaho Humanities Council Board, where I have served for six years. At my university, I joined the Faculty Senate for four years, eventually becoming Vice President and then Faculty Senate President; I also chaired the English Department for three years; and I have served on and chaired numerous university committees. My background experience dovetails with many of the areas important to the Hemingway Society, such as: membership communications, event programming, conference planning, financial/treasury management, and grants and awards.
I would also bring some unique life experiences to the Hemingway Society Board. For 13 years I was a fisherman in the Bering Sea, working as a mate and medic aboard Factory Trawlers. When not at sea, I traveled the world, finally settling in Mexico, where I delved into the literary scene. Later, I got a MA Degree in English Literature and Creative Writing, and then went on to get a PhD in English Renaissance Literature. I have published many essays, a book of poetry, books of translation (with the Spanish language), and books of academic scholarship. I am currently adapting a 17th-century play about a transgender person, called Lieutenant Nun – an academic edition (translation and scholarly framework) of the original Spanish play is forthcoming from Routledge Press in 2025.
I look forward to working with the Board and Society members!
Thank you for considering my nomination.
Lisa Tyler
I joined the Society’s board in January 2020 after Carl Eby was elected president, leaving a vacancy on the board, and was later elected to serve. During my years on the board, I have taken minutes as secretary, served on the Society’s Media Committee, participated in a webinar, run the holiday writing contest, and edited The Hemingway Review Blog with the help of a three-person advisory committee. So from the list of skills the Society seeks in its board members, my strongest areas of expertise would probably lie in membership communication and event programming.
As a professor of English at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio, I teach composition and literature at an urban community college with a diverse population of more than 30,000 students annually. I first published an article on Hemingway in The Hemingway Review in 1994, but I have been interested in his work since I first read A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises when I was a teenager.
That interest has not waned over the more than 40 years since. During that time I have published three books on Hemingway, including Student Companion to Ernest Hemingway (Greenwood, 2001) and two essay collections: Teaching Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (Kent State, 2008) and Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism (Louisiana State, 2019). My essays on Hemingway have appeared in The Hemingway Review, Arizona Quarterly, Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Journal of Men, Masculinities, and Spirituality, and more than a dozen edited collections. I have also presented at Hemingway Society conferences in Ketchum/Sun Valley, Stresa, Key West, Kansas City, Petoskey, Venice, Sheridan/Cooke City, and San Sebastian/Bilbao.
Hemingway Society Board Elections for Two Seats with Service Beginning in 2025.