Dean Deborah H. Holdstein, PhD

Deborah H. Holdstein, PhD, is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at Columbia College Chicago.

Dr. Holdstein has published widely in such areas as film, literary studies, and rhetoric and composition; until December, 2009, she continues her term as Editor of the premier journal in rhetoric and composition, College Composition and Communication.  As Editor, she is also an Officer of the international organization, the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Before her arrival at Columbia, Holdstein served as a member of the graduate faculty at Northern Illinois University, where she was Chair of the PhD-granting Department of English. For twenty years, Holdstein taught and advised graduate and undergraduate students at Governors State University, where she also led the program in English, chaired the Graduate Council, and served as Faculty Associate for Graduate Studies and Research in the Office of the Provost. From 1997-2000, she also led GSU's university-wide North Central Association re-accreditation effort.  

Dr. Holdstein's books include On Composition and Computers; Rhetorical Choices (with Charles Schuster and Keith Gilyard); The Prentice-Hall Anthology of Women Writers; and her most recent volume, Judaic Perspectives in Rhetoric and Composition (edited with Andrea Greenbaum).  Deborah Holdstein also serves as a consultant to colleges and universities (and directs the Consultant-Evaluator Program of the Council of Writing Program Administrators), and is a regular speaker at major scholarly conferences.  

Holdstein received the B.A. from Northwestern University (English and French) and the A.M. and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Comparative Literary Studies).

Contact information:
                                  Dean Deborah H. Holdstein, PhD
                                  Office of the Dean; School of LAS
                                  623 S. Wabash
                                  Suite 501
                                  Chicago, IL 60605

                                  dholdstein@colum.edu
                                  (312) 369-8219