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Ross Tangedal

Grad Appointee

Ross K. Tangedal

Ross K. Tangedal is a PhD student and teaching fellow in English: Literature, Cultural Theory and Social Practice. Raised on a cattle ranch outside of Plentywood, MT, Tangedal earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Montana State University-Bozeman, where he studied under regional poet and songwriter Greg Keeler. Tangedal studies 20th Century American Literature, with emphases on Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner and the profession of authorship in America. Tangedal has given several conference presentations focused on American literature between 1920-1960 and most recently published an article regarding Hemingway's pedagogy (A Few Practical Things: Death in the Afternoon and Hemingway's Natural Pedagogy") in the Teaching Hemingway Series [Hemingway and the Natural World, Kent UP-forthcoming 2014]. His dissertation research is concerned with paratextual elements in Modern American fiction of the 20s, 30s, & 40s, and how those elements alter various textual (and authorial) modes. He enjoys integrating literature into the writing classroom, having taught Fitzgerald (This Side of Paradise), Hemingway (In Our Time), Carson McCullers (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter), and Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men) alongside critical writing and research discourse.

OFFICE

Department of English

CONTACT INFO

rtangeda@kent.edu

COURSES TEACHING

Fall 2013

• ENG 21011 - 018 College Writing Ii