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Ross K. Tangedal, Ph.D.
Director & Publisher
Dr. Tangedal is Associate Professor of English and Director & Publisher of the Cornerstone Press at UWSP, a role he has held since 2016. A scholar of bibliography, textual editing and American literature (with emphasis on Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald), he is the author of The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) and editor of Good Country: Ernest Hemingway and the American West (University of Nevada Press, forthcoming 2026), The Routledge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald (Routledge, forthcoming 2026), Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell (Michigan State University Press 2023), and Editing the Harlem Renaissance (Clemson University Press 2021). His work has been published in multiple journals, including The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, South Atlantic Review, the Hemingway Review, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, and Authorship, as well as in various essay collections. He is a contributing editor for the NEH-funded Hemingway Letters Project (Cambridge University Press), where he is associate editor of volume 6: The Letters of Ernest Hemingway (1934–1936) (2024).
As director & publisher, he has overseen the expansion of Cornerstone Press from a one-title per year operation to a 50+ title per year traditional small press and publishing house. Courses are offered year-round to staff the press and teach students the business of publishing in the twenty-first century. Dr. Tangedal directs all press operations, with emphasis in acquisitions, business operations, distribution, contracts, production layouts, interior design, and quality control.
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