Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, PhD, is an artist, curator, writer, poet, vegan blogger, and a professor emerita at the University of Iowa. From 2017-2020, she served as Senior Scholar for Digital Arts and Humanities for the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio at UI, where she was an ambassador and liaison for the digital humanities, as well as director of the Public Digital Humanities graduate certificate. She also served as an administrative fellow in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean at UI (2020-2023) and served as interim department chair in the African American Studies Program at UI (2023-2024). Her research and teaching fields include American literature, history, and culture, women and gender studies, the institutional history, theories, and methods of American and cultural studies, 18th century to contemporary cultural history, comparative ethnic studies, Black cultural studies, the digital humanities, the medical humanities, film, cinema, popular culture, and the visual arts.