Deborah L. Nelson is Dean of UChicago's Division of the Arts & Humanities and the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in the Department of English Language & Literature and the College. She is a renowned scholar whose research focuses on late 20th-century U.S. culture and politics. Nelson’s research interests include American literature and plays, gender and sexuality studies, photography, and Cold War history. Her book Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil won the Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowell Prize for Best Book of 2017 and the Gordan Laing Prize in 2019 for the most distinguished contribution to the University of Chicago Press by a faculty member.
Presentation