Mark P. Ott

Mark P. Ott is the Head of School at the Windsor School at Albany in The Bahamas. He formerly taught at Deerfield Academy and is a noted Hemingway scholar. He is the co-editor of Hemingway and Italy: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (University Press of Florida, 2017), the author of Sea of Change: Ernest Hemingway and the Gulf Stream (Kent State University Press, 2008), and the co-editor of Ernest Hemingway and the Geography of Memory (Kent State University Press, 2010), as well as the General Editor for the “Teaching Ernest Hemingway” series with Kent State University Press. A frequent lecturer on Hemingway’s work, Ott has presented academic numerous papers at international Hemingway conferences, including such topics as The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway and deep sea fishing, and approaches to teaching his work. Ott has a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD from the University of Hawaii-Manoa and previously taught at Phillips Exeter Academy, The Blake School in Minneapolis, Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of Hawaii-Manoa.