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Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholars

Cathy W. Barks teaches American Literature at the University of Maryland,
College Park. She is currently teaching a new seminar: The Great Gatsby and
American Culture: From the Jazz Age to Bill Gates and the Information
Age.  She developed and maintains the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Web Site,
and is the co-editor with Jackson R. Bryer of Dear Scott, Dearest
Zelda:  The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

Jackson R. Bryer is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland
and president of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society. He is the co-editor, with Cathy
W. Barks, of Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (2002). He is also the co-editor of Conversations With August Wilson (2006), The Art of the American Musical: Conversations With the Creators (2005), The Facts on File Companion To American Drama (2004),  F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Twenty-First Century (2003), The Actor’s Art: Conversations with Contemporary American Stage Performers (2001), and F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Perspectives (2000).

Kirk Curnutt is professor and chair of English at Troy University in Montgomery, Alabama. He is currently vice-president of the International Fitzgerald Society, managing editor of The Fitzgerald Review, and a board member of both the Ernest Hemingway Society and the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum (located in Montgomery). He is the author of several books, including The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald (forthcoming, 2007), The Oxford Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald (2004), Alienated-Youth Fiction (2001), Ernest Hemingway and the Expatriate Modernist Movement (2000), The Critical Response to Gertrude Stein (2000), and Wise Economies: Brevity and Storytelling in American Short Stories (1997). He has also published a collection of short stories, Baby, Let’s Make a Baby, Plus Ten More Stories (2003) and a novel, Breathing Out the Ghost (forthcoming, 2007).

Scott Donaldson is one of the nation’s leading literary biographers; his work in the
field, up to 1990, is chronicled in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. 111 (1990).
Among his books are Poet in America: Winfield Townley Scott (1972), By Force of
Will: The Life of Ernest Hemingway (1977), Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1983),
John Cheever: A Biography (1988), Archibald MacLeish: An American Life (1992)
[winner of the 1993 Ambassador Book Award for biography], and Hemingway vs.
Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship (1999). In addition, Donaldson
has written many articles on twentieth-century American literature and culture and
edited a number of books, including Critical Essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great
Gatsby (1984), Conversations with John Cheever (1987) New Essays on A Farewell to
Arms (1990), and the Cambridge Companion to Hemingway (1996). His biography,
Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet’s Life, is forthcoming February 2007 along with his edited addition of an Everyman Pocket Poets on Robinson. Donaldson served
as president of the Hemingway Society from 2000-2002 and is also one of the first elected honorary members of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society.

Heidi Kunz is Associate Professor of English and Acting Chair of the Department of American Culture at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, VA, where she has taught since 1987. The winner of two awards for distinguished teaching, she particularly enjoys designing courses for R-MWC’s interdisciplinary American Culture Program and developing her own interdisciplinarity in the field of historical archaeology. Kunz has served the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society as a member of the Board, and currently serves as Board Administrator. Her publications include essays in The Neglected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Approaches to Teaching "The Great Gatsby". She is currently working on a manuscript about another of her research interests, 19th-century American astronomer Maria Mitchell.

Linda Patterson Miller is Professor of English at Penn State Abington, where she has taught American literature since 1984, earning numerous teaching awards.  Miller’s publications on American writers have appeared in such journals as Mosaic, Renascence, American Transcendental Quarterly, Journal of Modern Literature, North Dakota Quarterly, Studies in American Fiction and The Hemingway Review, and in several edited book collections. Dr. Miller’s books include (with Randall M. Miller) The Book of American Diaries, and Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends, and Letters from the Lost Generation (expanded edition). Miller is presently completing a book on American expatriate artists in France (The Summer of ’26), and her Reading Hemingway: In Our Time is forthcoming. Prof. Miller served as guest scholar for C-Span’s show on Hemingway in its ongoing series American Writers: A Journey Through History), as a scholarly consultant for American Playhouse, PBS, and most recently for a special exhibition, Muses of the Avant-Garde: Sara and Gerald Murphy and their Circle. She continues to serve as a Board member of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, and she chairs the Editorial Review Board for the forthcoming multi-volume Ernest Hemingway Complete Letters.      

Kim Moreland is Associate Professor of English at The George Washington University.  She has published widely and delivered frequent conference papers on F. Scott Fitzgerald. Her book, The Medievalist Impulse in American Literature: Twain, Adams, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway (University Press of Virginia, 1996) contains a chapter devoted to Fitzgerald's works.  She has published articles on Fitzgerald's fiction in Southern Humanities Review and the Journal of Modern Fiction.  She also published an essay focusing on John Harbison's 2000 opera of The Great Gatsby, "Music in The Great Gatsby and The Great Gatsby as Music,” in the edited volume Literature and Musical Adaptation. New York: Rodopi P, 2002.  Her article "Teaching Gatsby as American Culture-Hero" is forthcoming in the edited volume Approaches to Teaching "The Great Gatsby."  In addition to her work on Fitzgerald, she has published widely on other American writers, notably Ernest Hemingway.

Ruth Prigozy is Professor of English and Film Studies at Hofstra University. She is Executive Director of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, which she co-founded in 1990.
She has published widely on F. Scott Fitzgerald as well as on Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, the Hollywood Ten, film directors Billy Wilder and D.W. Griffith, and director Vittorio de Sica. She has edited Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald. She is the author of F. Scott Fitzgerald: An Illustrated Life. She has co-edited two volumes on detective fiction and film, one on the short story, and two collections of essays on Fitzgerald.  Her biography of singer/actor Dick Haymes, The Life of Dick Haymes: No More Little White Lies, was published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2006.  She is currently working on The Great Gatsby for the Cambridge Landmarks of World Literature series, and is co-editing two volumes of essays to be published in 2007, one on Frank Sinatra, and another on Bing Crosby.

Kathryn Lee Seidel is Professor of English at the University of Central Florida in Orlando where she teaches courses in literature of the South. She is the author of The Southern Belle in the American Novel (1985), which contains an essay on Save Me the Waltz, and co-editor of Zora in Florida (1991). Her essays on Southern women writers such as Kate Chopin, Harper Lee, Gail Godwin, Elizabeth Spencer, and many others have appeared in The Mississippi Quarterly, The Southern Quarterly, and several essay collections. She recently returned to the faculty after spending ten years as a dean.

Gail D. Sinclair is Scholar in residence and Coordinator for Rollins College Colloquy on Liberal Arts. She has taught American Literature for more than twenty-five years. Her publications include essays in The F. Scott Fitzgerald Newsletter, The Hemingway Review, Studies in the Novel, and Mississippi Quarterly, as well as in Hemingway’s Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice in Hemingway, and essays forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Hemingway and War, and Teaching Hemingway’s " A Farewell to Arms". She is currently on the board of directors for the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and is serving as academic coordinator for the Polasek Museum’s Symposium on Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at University of North Carolina-chapel Hill. She has written widely about American modernist authors, and co-edited The Oxford Companion to Women Writers in the United States. Her biographies of Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald have tried to illustrate some of the ideas in her Telling Women's Lives: The New Biography study. She has been a Guggenheim fellow, an NEH senior fellow,  a Rockefeller recipient, and several times president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society. 

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Dramatic Presentation: The Scott and Zelda Correspondence

Robyn Allers is Coordinator of the Arts at Rollins College . She is also a freelance writer whose clients have included Daimler-Chrysler, BellSouth, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and Houghton-Mifflin Company. She has taught writing at Birmingham Southern College and Rollins College. She served as president and artistic director of Birmingham Festival Theatre in Birmingham, Alabama and co-founded Off-Street Players in Tallahassee, Florida, which produced the world premiere of Samuel Beckett's revised Footfalls, in which she also performed (1990). Acting credits include leading roles in The Real Thing, Top Girls, and As Bees in Honey Drown. Directing credits include Oleanna, Alabama Rain, and The Dumbwaiter.

Roger Casey is the Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs and a Professor of English at Rollins College. Dr. Casey teaches courses in drama, postmodern culture, and leadership theory. He has spoken to over one hundred organizations and is the author of numerous articles and Textual Vehicles: The Automobile in American Literature. A frequent media analyst, he has been quoted in The New York Times, Forbes, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, USA Today, CNN, and CBS. His theatre credits include playing the lead in David Mamet's Oleanna and directing the Southern premieres of Pulitzer-Prize-winners Three Tall Women and How I Learned to Drive. Dr. Casey holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from Florida State University and a B.A. from Furman  University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.