Deborah L. Nelson (born 14 December 1962) is an American academic.
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] In 2023, Professor Deborah L. Nelson was appointed dean of the University of Chicago Division of the Humanities.
She graduated from Yale College with a bachelor of arts in English in 1985.