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Deborah L. Nelson (born 14 December 1962) is an American academic.

Nelson earned her doctorate from the City University of New York and joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1996. She was appointed the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of English in 2018.[1][2] Her 2017 book, Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil won the 2018 James Russell Lowell Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association,[3] and the 2019 Gordon J. Laing Award.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Deborah Nelson". University of Chicago. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Three Women Scholars Appointed to Endowed Faculty Chairs". Women in Academia Report. 6 July 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  3. ^ "UChicago Professor to Receive the MLA's Prestigious James Russell Lowell Prize". University of Chicago. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  4. ^ Wang, Jack (29 April 2019). "UChicago Press awards top honor to Deborah Nelson for 'Tough Enough'". University of Chicago. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
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