Summary
Debra Moddelmog is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts Emerita and Professor of English Emerita at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author or editor of five books and many articles on American literature, teaching and academic women’s leadership. She also serves on the editorial board of The Hemingway Review and on the advisory board of the Hemingway Letters Project (Cambridge University Press), which is publishing all of Hemingway’s 6,000 extant letters, 85% of which have never been published before. Prior to her six-year tenure as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno (2016-2022), she had a thirty-year career as a professor of English and an administrator at The Ohio State University.
Research Interests
- 20th-century American literature
- Modernism
- Sexuality studies
Selected publications
Books
- Editor, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Broadview Press, 2024
- Co-editor, Ernest Hemingway in Context, Cambridge University Press, 2012
- Author, Reading Desire: In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway, Cornell University Press 1999
Articles
- Author, "The Submerged History and Altered Speech of Brett Ashley: Re-reading a Misread Woman," The Hemingway Review, vol. 44, no. 2, 2025, pp. 8-41.
- Author, "Time to Go? Moving Up and Moving On," Women Leading Change in Academia: Breaking the Glass Ceiling, Cliff, and Slipper, edited by Callie Rennison and Amy Bonomi, Cognella, 2020, pp. 257-74.
- Author, "Sexology and Modernism," Literature Compass, vol. 11, no. 4, 2014, pp. 267-78.
Education
- Ph.D., English, Pennsylvania State University, 1985
- M.A., English, Auburn University, 1981
- B.S., Journalism, Georgia Southern College, 1976