Moddelmog
Debra A. Moddelmog has been named dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Moddelmog previously spent 29 years at Ohio State University where she most recently served as professor and chair of the Department of English. She also served in a number of administrative roles, including associate dean of humanities as well as director of the Diversity and Identity Studies Collective at OSU, which she also helped to found. In 2002, she established an interdisciplinary program in Sexuality Studies for which she was the principal coordinator and co-adviser for more than a dozen years.
Moddelmog is also a scholar and teacher of 20th-century American literature, modernism and sexuality studies, and an expert on the writings of Ernest Hemingway. She serves on the advisory editorial board for both the Hemingway letters project (Cambridge University Press) and The Hemingway Review. She has published four books, one of which has been translated into Japanese, and more than 25 essays.
Moddelmog earned her doctorate degree in English from The Pennsylvania State University, her masters in English from Auburn University and her bachelors in journalism from Georgia Southern College.
