Education
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania
PhD, Literature and Criticism. 2006.
Dissertation: “Hemingway and The Spanish Earth: Art, Politics and War”
Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
MA, English Literature. 2002.
Thesis: “’A Room of [His] Own:’ Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House and Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Space”
Cal State University, Hayward, California
BA, English. 1971.
Publications/Podcasts/Film/Performance
“All We Didn’t Do.” Writer, Narrator. A short film created and directed by Rochelle Smith. Included in Idaho Filmmakers “Idaho Film Week,” The Flicks Theater. September 14, 2026.
“The Trial of Margaret Macomber,” Writer, Director. The Hemingway Center, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho. February 27, 2026.
“The Trial of Margaret Macomber.” Writer, Director. Boise Contemporary Theater, Boise, Idaho. January 6, 2025.
“The Spanish Civil War Stories.” “One True Sentence” Narrated by Mark Cirino. International Hemingway Conference, Bilbao, Spain. July 2024
“An Exploration of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘My Old Man.’” The Routledge Companion to Ernest Hemingway. Publication date TBD.
“They Still Draw Pictures.” Writer & Narrator. A short film directed by Rochelle Smith. Presented at Colossal Cinematic Showcase, Boise, Idaho. May 2024
“All We Didn’t Do In Idaho.” Writer, Narrator. A short film created and directed by Rochelle Smith. Presented at Colossal Cinematic Showcase, Boise, Idaho. May 7, 2023.
Rochelle Smith. Interview/Podcast. “She Likes to Go Slow.” 95.9 The River. “Stacey Guill, The Stone House in the Cañon, The Story of Mary Hallock Foote.” February 2, 2023. https://shelikestogoslow.com/stacey-guill-the-stone-house-in-the-canon-the-story-of-mary-hallock-foote
“The Red and White Terrors: Civil War and Political Savagery in Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls.” The Hemingway Review. Fall 2020.
The Stone House in the Cañon: Mary Hallock Foote and A Vision of Home in the West by Stacey Guill. Self-published. First Printing, July 2019.
“‘We Were in Switzerland Together:” Catherine and Frederic and the Lake Scene in A Farewell to Arms.” The Hemingway Review. Fall 2019.
“‘That Fat Ass Franco’ and the ‘Spanish Issue’ in Ernest Hemingway’s Across the River and into the Trees.” The Hemingway Review. Spring 2016.
Book Review: From Guernica to Human Rights: Essays on The Spanish Civil War, Peter N. Carroll. The Hemingway Review. Fall 2015.
“‘Los Aviónes!’: The Interpretation of a New Warscape in The Spanish Earth, Picasso’s Guernica and For Whom the Bell Tolls.” The Hemingway Review. Fall 2014.
“‘The Stone House in the Cañon’: Mary Hallock Foote and a Vision of Home in the West.” Boise @ One Five Zero: Essays and Poems from the City of Trees. 2013.
Film Review: “Hemingway and Gellhorn.” Ivens Magazine. Nov-Dec 2013.
“Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War.” Hemingway in Context. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Book Review: Hemingway’s Second War: Bearing Witness to the Spanish Civil War, Alex Vernon. The Hemingway Review. Fall 2011.
“Pilar and Maria: Hemingway’s Feminist Homage to the ‘New Woman’ of Spain.” The Hemingway Review. Spring 2011.
“The Spanish Earth, Guernica, For Whom the Bell Tolls and the Spanish Pavilion.” Ivens Magazine. June-July 2010.
“‘Now You Have Seen It’: Ernest Hemingway and Joris Ivens and The Spanish Earth.” The Hemingway Review. Fall 2010.
Presentations
“White Elephants, Sea Changes, and Secret Gardens: From Liz Coates to Catherine Bourne.” Ernest Hemingway Seminar, Ketchum, Idaho. September 2026.
“Hemingway’s Three Muses in A Moveable Feast.” Ernest Hemingway Seminar, Ketchum, Idaho. September 2025.
“Coffee With Hemingway.” A Staged Reading based on Kirk Curnutt’s book Coffee With Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway Seminar, Ketchum, Idaho. September 2024.
“‘That’s Some Old Woman:’ Marie Morgan as Hemingway Code Hero.” BSU Panel, Ernest Hemingway Seminar, Ketchum, Idaho. September 2024.
“‘Dear Mrs. Roosevelt:’ Writing for the Republican Cause. Martha Gellhorn’s Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt, 1937-1939.” BSU Panel, Ernest Hemingway International Conference, San Sebastian, Spain. July 2024
“My Old Man,” BSU Faculty Panel, Ernest Hemingway Seminar. September 2024
“We Loved Each Other: the Letters Between Patrick and Ernest Hemingway.” A Staged Reading. Ernest Hemingway Seminar. September 2024.
“Mary Hallock Foote: Architecture & the Journey West.” The North Star House, Grass Valley, California. June 14, 2023.
“The Dock Fight in Ernest Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream.” BSU Faculty Panel. Ernest Hemingway Seminar. September 2022.
“Lynd Ward, Ernest Hemingway and the 1942 Illustrated Edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls.” 19th Biennial Hemingway Society Conference. Sheridan, Wyoming. July 2022.
“The Trial of Margaret Macomber.” A Staged Reading. 19th Biennial Hemingway Society Conference. Sheridan, Wyoming. July 2022.
“Hemingway’s Safari Women.” Ernest Hemingway Seminar. BSU Faculty Panel. Ernest Hemingway Seminar. Ketchum, Idaho. September 2021.
“The Trial of Margaret Macomber.” A Staged Reading. Ernest Hemingway Seminar. Ketchum, Idaho. September 2021.
“The Red and White Terrors: Civil War and Political Savagery in Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls.” BSU Faculty Panel. Ernest Hemingway Seminar. Ketchum, Idaho. September 2019.
“A Moveable Landscape: Hemingway, Cézanne and the Compression of Space.” 16th International Hemingway Conference. Paris, France. July 2018.
“‘Well I’m No Slacker Now:’ Ernest Hemingway’s Journey to War 1917-1918.” BSU Faculty Panel. Ernest Hemingway Seminar. Ketchum, Idaho. September 2018.
“‘I’m Trying to Do the Country Like Cézanne’: Hemingway, Cézanne and Landscape.” BSU Faculty Panel. Ernest Hemingway Seminar. Ketchum, Idaho. September 2017.
“Ernest Hemingway’s Journey to War.” Academic Panel, 8th Annual Hemingway Festival. University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. March 2017.
“‘The Stone House in the Cañon’: Mary Hallock Foote and a Vision of Home in the West.” Boise Public Library. Boise, Idaho. November 2016.
“The Depiction of Wildlife in Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa.” BSU Faculty Panel. Ernest Hemingway Festival. Ketchum, Idaho. Fall 2016
“Hemingway at the Edges.” BSU Faculty Panel. 2015 Ernest Hemingway Festival. Ketchum, Idaho. Fall 2015.
“‘The Stone House in the Cañon’: Mary Hallock Foote and a Vision of Home in the West.” 50th Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association. Reno, Nevada. October 2015.
“’That Fat Ass Franco’: Shadows of the Spanish Civil War in Across the River and into the Trees.” 16th International Hemingway Conference. Isola Di San Servolo, Venice, Italy. 2014.
“Tom Outland: The ‘Tramp Boy’ and His Search for Home in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House.” 14th International Willa Cather Seminar. Northern Arizona University. 2013.
“Hemingway’s Feminist Homage to the ‘New Woman’ of Spain in For Whom the Bell Tolls.” Ernest Hemingway Symposium. Ketchum, Idaho. Fall 2011.
“’Aviación!’: The Interpretation of a New Warscape in The Spanish Earth and For Whom the Bell Tolls.” 14th International Hemingway Conference. Lausanne, Switzerland. 2010.
“The Spanish Earth and Its Connections to For Whom the Bell Tolls.” Fourth Annual Ernest Hemingway Festival. Ketchum, Idaho. 2008.
“Intimacy and Immensity: Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House and Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space.” 11th International Willa Cather Seminar. Paris and Provence, France. 2007.
“The Spanish Earth: Art, Politics and War.” 12th International Hemingway Conference. Ronda, Spain. 2006.
“The Honest Courtesan and Welbeck’s ‘Illustrious Whore.’” Margaret Cavendish Society International Conference. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. 2004.
“Wine of Wyoming on Cezanne’s Canvas.” 11th International Hemingway Conference. Key West, Florida. 2004.
“‘Beneath the Surface’: Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory and the Lake Scene in A Farewell to Arms.” 10th International Hemingway Conference. Stresa, Italy. 2002.
Teaching/Research Experience
Archival Work-The David Meeker Collection. Ketchum Community Library. January 2024-ongoing.
“The Trial of Margaret Macomber.” Osher Institute, Boise State University, Spring 2024
“The Stone House in the Canyon.” Osher Institute, Boise State University. Fall 2022.
Sponsor, Curator: “The Drawings of Edward Shenton.” Exhibit of Illustrations from Ernest Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa. The Community Library, Ketchum, Idaho. September 2021.
“‘ They Still Draw Pictures:’ Drawings by Spanish Refugee Children: 1936-1939.” Osher Institute, Boise State University. Fall 2021.
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” and the Spanish Civil War.” Osher Institute, Boise State University. Fall 2017.
“Hemingway in Venice and the Veneto.” Osher Institute, Boise State University. Spring 2016.
Sponsor, Curator and Presenter, “Hemingway in Venice and the Veneto.” Photographic exhibit, Boise State University. Spring 2015.
Co-Instructor (with Dr. David Lachiondo), “Literature of the Spanish Civil War.” March 2012.
“Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and the Spanish Civil War.” Osher Institute, Boise State University. Fall 2010.
Editorial/Research Assistant to Dr. Rena Sanderson, Editor, Vol. 3, Hemingway Letters Project. Jan-Nov 2009.
Awards
Smith-Reynolds Founders Fellowship Research Grant, Hemingway Foundation and Society. 2007.
Memberships
Board Member, Annual Ernest Hemingway Seminar, Ketchum, Idaho
The International Hemingway Society
The Willa Cather Foundation
Western Literature Association
Phi Kappa Phi
Languages
English (Native Language)
French (DELF B1)