Dennis Ledden

Dennis B. Ledden earned a B.S. degree in Secondary Education-English from Penn State, an M.A. degree in English Literature from The University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. degree in literature and literary criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and has taught both high school and college English, most recently as Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Penn State University. His most recent publications include essays in Cincinnati Romance Review, The Hemingway Review, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Dr. Ledden has presented his research at a number of literary conferences, including those sponsored by the Society for the Study of the American Short Story, The American Literature Association, and The Hemingway Society. He is currently completing the second part of his two-book study,Hemingway and the Wounds of Love: Romance and Masculinity in the Early and Later Fiction and beginning work on Wartime and Post-War Romantic Quests: Inner Strength and Masculinity Construction in Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway.