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dmoddelmog@unr.edu

Dr. Debra Moddelmog is an internationally recognized scholar of American modernism and a leading authority on Ernest Hemingway. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre (MLC), supporting its international research partnerships and strategic initiatives. A distinguished academic leader, she is former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno, and previously held senior leadership roles at The Ohio State University. Her publications include Reading Desire: In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway (Cornell University Press) and the co-edited volume Ernest Hemingway in Context (Cambridge University Press). She also serves on the editorial board of The Hemingway Review and the advisory board of the Hemingway Letters Project (Cambridge University Press).

Dr. Moddelmog is deeply committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion and is known for her practical, solution-focused leadership. Guided by her motto, “I like to solve problems,” she brings a hands-on, collaborative approach to advancing research, strengthening institutional partnerships, and supporting the work of the MLC.

Book Publications

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

Selected Scholarly Articles

Moddelmog, Debra, “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.

Moddelmog, Debra, “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.

Moddelmog, Debra, “Sexology and Modernism,” Literature Compass, vol. 11, no. 4, 2014, pp. 267-78.

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The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

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The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

Amid the unprecedented social change of World War I, women renegotiated their identities by dramatically changing the way they engaged with the arts. But how did they do so? And how did everyday citizens engage with the war?
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, considered by many to be the mother of Dada, was a daringly innovative poet and an early creator of junk sculpture. “The Baroness” was best known for her sexually charged, often controversial performances.
Modernism in the World

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Modernism in the World

Recent research has departed from the Euro-centric and national view of Modernism to include approaches and methods studying Modernism across national boundaries and across different art forms to include fashion, dance, performance, technology, and visual culture.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery is perhaps Canada's most important literary export. She was prolific writer of over 500 short stories and poems, and twenty novels, including the beloved Anne of Green Gables.
Canadian Modernism

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Canadian Modernism

The works of numerous Canadian authors who lived during the modernist era may well constitute the most central and experimental articulation of Canadian modernism in prose, allowing authors to stage cross-cultural, controversial, and even conflicted identities.
Modernist Biography and Life Writing

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Modernist Biography and Life Writing

Life writing, including autobiographical accounts, diaries, letters and testimonials written or told by women and men whose political, literary or philosophical purposes are central to their lives, has become a standard tool for communication and the dissemination of information.