Sandra Spanier

Sandra Spanier is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She serves as General Editor of the Hemingway Letters Project, a multi-volume scholarly edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her research focuses on American literature post-1900, textual studies, and Modernist studies.

Spanier’s scholarly work includes critical editions of writings by Kay Boyle and Martha Gellhorn, such as Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters (2015) and Love Goes to Press (1995). Her Hemingway project has produced five volumes to date, offering meticulously annotated correspondence that reshapes understanding of his literary development.

Her contributions to textual studies emphasize archival rigor and interdisciplinary approaches to authorship. Current projects continue the Hemingway Letters series while exploring intersections of gender, modernism, and book history.

Grants and institutional support include significant NEH funding for the Hemingway Letters Project, reflecting its scholarly impact. Collaborations span editorial teams, archival institutions, and international scholars.