JOHN FENSTERMAKER, Fred L. Standley Professor of English and University Distinguished Teacher, holds the Ph.D. from Ohio State University (1973) and specializes in Victorian and Modern American literature and culture. English Department Chair from 1982-1994, he is currently Director of the Program in American and Florida Studies. His most recent book is The Art of Literary Research (with Richard D. Altick), and he is currently writing a two-volume Hemingway biography and log.

Professionally active, Fenstermaker has been President of the Florida College English Association, the Florida Association of Departments of English, and the South Atlantic Association of Departments of English. Elected to the Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly, he was a member of an MLA committee on the "Future of the Profession of English." Within the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, he has served as Program Chair for various sections, including the Ernest Hemingway Society. In 2002, he chaired the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention Program Committee. He is a member of the Administrative Committee of the Southern American Studies Association. In 2003, he coordinated the Association's biennial conference hosted by the American and Florida Studies Program of Florida State University. He served as President of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association in 2005.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• "Accessing and Humanizing Culture." SAR 71.1(2006):1-11.
• "The Concluding Narratives of In Our Time." Twelfth International Hemingway Conference, Ronda, Spain, 2006.
• "Why Esquire? The Multiple Voices of a Complex Public Persona." Eleventh International Hemingway Conference, Key West, June 2004.
• "Agnes and Ernest: A Decade Before Catherine." NDQ 70.4 (Fall 2003): 19-39. (Special Hemingway Issue)
• Hemingway in Florida and Cuba. Text and captions for this photographic exhibit at the Museum of Florida History, March-April, 2000 (17 panels/41 photos). Exhibit toured 74 libraries under the auspices of the Florida Humanities Council.
• "Hemingway in the 1930s: A Conversation." Arkansas Review 30.2 (1999): 143-62. (with Michael S. Reynolds and Keneth Kinnamon)
• "Hemingway at the Millennium." Interview. BBC Worldwide News Service. July 1999.
• "Hemingway and the Gulf Stream: The Esquire Letters as Informal Apologia." Studies in American Culture 20.2 (1997): 41-57.
• "The Search for an American Audience: Marketing Ernest Hemingway, 1925-1930." Ernest Hemingway: The Oak Park Legacy. Ed. James Nagel. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1996. 179-98.
• The Art of Literary Research. Fourth Edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 1993. 331 pp. (with Richard D. Altick)
• John Forster. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984. 134 pp.
• "Language Abuse in Bleak House." Victorian Literature and Society. Ed. James R. Kincaid and Albert J. Kuhn. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1984. 240-57.
• Charles Dickens, 1940-1975: An Analytical Subject Index to Periodical Criticism of the Novels and Christmas Books. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1979. 302 pp.
• "Marketing Ernest Hemingway: Scribner's Advertising in Publishers Weekly and the New York Times Book Review 1929-1941." Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual 1978. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1979. 283-95.

RECENT GRANTS AND AWARDS

• Outstanding Teacher Award, South Atlantic Association of Departments of English, 2004.
• Fred L. Standley Professor, 2003.
• Distinguished Research Professor, 2002.
• University Distinguished Teacher Award, 2001.
• Florida Humanities Council grant to create the exhibit Hemingway in Florida and Cuba, 2000.
• Florida Center for the Book grant to bring to the Museum of Florida History, the National Portrait Gallery's Centennial exhibit Picturing Hemingway, 2000.
• University Teaching Award, Florida State University, 1998-99.
• Council for Research Summer Award, 1995, 1999.
• The President's Teaching Award, 1984-85.