BIO
Ross K. Tangedal is an associate professor of English and Director of the Cornerstone Press at UW-Stevens Point. He specializes in American print and publishing culture, with emphasis in book history, textual editing, bibliography, and authorship, American writers Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the American Midwest. He is also director of the Center for Bibliography and Textual Research and publisher of Midwest Review.
He is the author of The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan 2021), and editor of Good Country: Ernest Hemingway and the American West (University of Nevada Press, forthcoming 2025), Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell (Michigan State University Press 2023), and Editing the Harlem Renaissance (Clemson University Press 2021). Tangedal’s articles have been published in multiple journals, including The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, South Atlantic Review, the Hemingway Review, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, and Authorship, as well as in various essay collections. He has served as an associate volume editor for the NEH-funded Hemingway Letters Project since 2018. View CV
Tangedal is an active member of several academic organizations, including the Modern Language Association, the American Literature Association, the Ernest Hemingway Society, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, the Society for the Study of the American Short Story, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Association for Documentary Editing, and the Midwest History Association.
BOOKS
Tangedal, Ross K. (Ed.) (2025). Good Country: Ernest Hemingway and the American West. University of Nevada Press (forthcoming)
DuRose, Lisa, Tangedal, Ross K., and Oler, Andy (Eds.) (2023). Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell. Michigan State University Press, xxiv, 216 pp.
Tangedal, Ross K. (2021). The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, xvii, 220 pp.
Murray, Joshua M. and Tangedal, Ross K. (Eds.) (2021). Editing the Harlem Renaissance. Clemson University Press, xii, 300 pp.
RECENT ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
Tangedal, Ross K. (2024). “Something They Recognize: Working with Robert Frost’s New Hampshire.” Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Sean Heuston. Modern Language Association of America [forthcoming]
Tangedal, Ross K. (2023). “1904–1905.” F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography, edited by David A. Rennie and Niklas Salmose. University of Minnesota Press [forthcoming]
Tangedal, Ross K. (2022). “Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961).” Handbook of the American Short Story, edited by Erik Redling and Oliver Scheiding. De Gruyter, 305–318.
Tangedal, Ross K. (2021). “Bonnie Jo Campbell (1962– ): A Descriptive Bibliography,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Vol. 115: 4, 463–506.
Tangedal, Ross K. (2021). “Clad in the Beautiful Dress One Expects: Editing and Curating the Harlem Renaissance Text.” Editing the Harlem Renaissance, edited by Joshua M. Murray and Ross K. Tangedal. Clemson University Press, 63–83.
Tangedal, Ross K. (2020). “Fertile and Quiescent: Midwestern Memory in Bonnie Jo Campbell’s ‘Winter Life.’” MidAmerica, Vol. 47: 2, 65–76.
Tangedal, Ross K. (2019). “I’m Inclined to Believe: Editing Uncertainty in the Ending(s) to Nella Larsen’s Passing.” South Atlantic Review. Vol. 84: 2–3, 205–223.
Tangedal, Ross K. (2019). “Hemingway’s Experts: Teaching Race in Death in the Afternoon and Green Hills of Africa.” Teaching Hemingway and Race, edited by Gary Edward Holcomb. Kent State University Press, 29-40.
Tangedal, Ross K. (2018). “That Time in Chicago: Midwestern Memory in Nella Larsen’s Passing.” A Scattering Time: How Modernism Met Midwestern Culture, edited by Sara Kosiba. Hastings College Press, 17–31.
Tangedal, Ross K. (2018). “A Few Practical Things: Death in the Afternoon and Hemingway’s Natural Pedagogy.” Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World, edited by Kevin Maier. Kent State University Press, 178–191.
Tangedal, Ross K. (2017). “Alone and Alone: Defense, Justification, and Apology in Fitzgerald’s Late Prefaces.” F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. Vol. 15, 51–71.
Tangedal, Ross K. (2017). “Breaking Forelegs: Hemingway’s Early Prefaces.” Hemingway Review. Vol. 37: 1, 65–82.
Tangedal, Ross K. (2017). “Nothing is Left but the Sky: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Booth Tarkington, and Midwestern Influence.” Midwestern Miscellany. Vol. 45: 2, 12–25. Reprinted in Children’s Literature Review. Vol. 241, 2021, 106–113.
Tangedal, Ross K. (2016). “Refusing the Serious: Authorial Resistance in Ring Lardner’s Prefaces for Scribner’s.” Authorship. Vol. 5: 2, 1–11. Reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 409, 2021, 78–85.
TEACHING HONORS
- UWSP University Scholar Award (2018-2019)
Seeing students light up when they recognize a new approach to literature is ultimately the most rewarding part of teaching book history, publishing, and textual studies.
-ROSS TANGEDAL
FAVORITE QUOTE
“Far and away the best prize life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
FUN FACT
Tangedal grew up on a cattle ranch on the Montana/North Dakota border.