By Janice Byrne
A recent informal search revealed that undergraduate and graduate courses including works by Ernest Hemingway might be fewer in number than generally believed. Surprisingly, of those responding only one offered course exclusively dedicated to his works. That is Institutio Hemingway in Bilbao, Spain. American universities listing courses in their catalogs that include Hemingway titles are Yale, University of New York at New Paltz, University of California at Riverside, University of Michigan, Flint, Misericordia College and Huston Baptist University. Not surprisingly, each of these courses is taught by an internationally acclaimed Hemingway scholar, including H. R. Stoneback, Nancy Sindelar, Matt Nicel. and Michigan Hemingway Society’s Fred Svoboda.
The perhaps most important academic institution for Hemingway studies at this time is Pennsylvania State. Under the leadership of Sandra Spanier, Penn State covers the globe on a wide variety of topics as they produce new volumes for the Letters Project.