BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20186-91c34f25d78c0fadce745b9e0fac2409@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20261028T221620Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261211T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261211T130000 SUMMARY:Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents The Enduring Relevance of The Sun Also Rises DESCRIPTION:\n2026 marks the centennial anniversary of the publication o f Ernest Hemingway’s first novel\, The Sun Also Rises. Lauded then and n ow for its aesthetic innovations and attention to spiritual malaise and the search for meaning in a world marked by institutional corruption and collapse\, the novel’s keen attention to gender\, race\, sex\, and the environment\, among other issues and concerns\, provided for its being c elebrated as a mouthpiece of the so-called “Lost Generation.” The paneli sts on this webinar will reflect on the “enduring relevance” of The Sun Also Rises to readers today\, a century after its publication.\n\nPaneli sts:\n\nDebra Moddelmog\, Dean of Liberal Arts Emerita and Professor of English Emerita\, University of Nevada\, Reno\n\nDebra Moddlemog is auth or or editor of five books and many articles on American literature\, te aching\, and academic women’s leadership. Among her books are Reading De sire: In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway (Cornell University Press\, 1999)\, Ernest Hemingway in Context\, co-edited with Suzanne del Gizzo\, (Cambr idge University Press\, 2012)\, and an edition of The Sun Also Rises (Br oadview Press\, 2024). She serves on the editorial board of The Hemingwa y Review and on the Advisory Board of the Hemingway Letters Project. Pri or to her six-year tenure as Dean of Liberal Arts at UNR (2016–2022)\, s he had a 30-year career as a professor of English and an administrator a t The Ohio State University\, where she is Emerita Professor of English. \n\nMarcos Antonio Norris\, Senior Instructor\, School of Writing\, Lite rature\, and Film\, Oregon State University\n\nMarcos Antonio Norris is the author of Hemingway and Agamben: Finding Religion Without God (Edinb urgh University Press\, 2023) and co-editor of two essay collections inc luding Agamben and the Existentialists (Edinburgh University Press\, 202 1\; with Colby Dickinson) and Hemingway and Posthumanism (Edinburgh Univ ersity Press\, 2025\; with Ryan Hediger). The author of more than a doze n peer-reviewed articles\, Norris’s research focuses on the intersection s among contemporary continental philosophy\, political theology\, and t wentieth-century American literature.\n\nVerna Kale\, Associate Research Professor of English and Associate Editor of the Hemingway Letters Proj ect\, Penn State\n\nVerna Kale is the editor of the Norton Library Editi on of The Sun Also Rises (2025) and author of the critical biography Ern est Hemingway (Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press\, 2016). She i s also editor of Teaching Hemingway and Gender (Kent State University Pr ess\, 2016) and co-editor\, with Sandra Spanier and Miriam B. Mandel\, o f The Letters of Ernest Hemingway\, Volumes 6 and 7 (Cambridge Universit y Press). Kale was a program advisor to the PBS documentary film HEMINGW AY (2021)\, directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick\, and she currently se rves as president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society.\n\nMod erator:\n\nKatie Painter\, Graduate Student\, Department of English\, Pe nn State\n\nThis webinar is part of the 2026–2027 CALS “Unprecedented” W ebinar Series.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/the- sun-also-rises/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

2026 marks the centennial anniversary of the publication of Ernest Hemingway’s first no vel, The Sun Also Rises. Lauded then and now for its aesthetic innovations and attention to spiritual malaise and the search for meanin g in a world marked by institutional corruption and collapse, the novel’ s keen attention to gender, race, sex, and the environment, among other issues and concerns, provided for its being celebrated as a mouthpiece o f the so-called “Lost Generation.” The panelists on this webinar will re flect on the “enduring relevance” of The Sun Also Rises to read ers today, a century after its publication.

Panelists:

Debra Moddelmog, Dean of Liberal Arts Emerita and Professor of Englis h Emerita, University of Nevada, Reno

Debra Moddlemog is author or editor of five books and many articles on American literature, teaching, and academic women’s leadership. Among her books are Read ing Desire: In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway (Cornell University Pres s, 1999), Ernest Hemingway in Context, co-edited with Suzanne d el Gizzo, (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and an edition of The Sun Also Rises (Broadview Press, 2024). She serves on the editorial board of The Hemingway Review and on the Advisory Board of the Hemingwa y Letters Project. Prior to her six-year tenure as Dean of Liberal Arts at UNR (2016–2022), she had a 30-year career as a professor of English a nd an administrator at The Ohio State University, where she is Emerita P rofessor of English.

Marcos Antonio Norris, Senior Instruc tor, School of Writing, Literature, and Film, Oregon State University

Marcos Antonio Norris is the author of Hemingway and Ag amben: Finding Religion Without God (Edinburgh University Press, 20 23) and co-editor of two essay collections including Agamben and the Existentialists (Edinburgh University Press, 2021; with Colby Dick inson) and Hemingway and Posthumanism (Edinburgh University Pre ss, 2025; with Ryan Hediger). The author of more than a dozen peer-revie wed articles, Norris’s research focuses on the intersections among conte mporary continental philosophy, political theology, and twentieth-centur y American literature.

Verna Kale, Associate Research Prof essor of English and Associate Editor of the Hemingway Letters Project, Penn State

Verna Kale is the editor of the Norton Library Edition of The Sun Also Rises (2025) and author of the critica l biography Ernest Hemingway (Reaktion Books/University of Chic ago Press, 2016). She is also editor of Teaching Hemingway and Gende r (Kent State University Press, 2016) and co-editor, with Sandra Sp anier and Miriam B. Mandel, of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volu mes 6 and 7 (Cambridge University Press). Kale was a program adviso r to the PBS documentary film HEMINGWAY (2021), directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and she currently serves as president of the Ern est Hemingway Foundation and Society.

Moderator:

Kat ie Painter, Graduate Student, Department of English, Penn State

This webinar is part of the 2026–2027 CALS “Unprecedented” Webina r Series.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/the-sun-also-ris es/

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