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Steven Fink Named New Associate Executive Dean in Arts and Sciences

August 8, 2011

Steven Fink Named New Associate Executive Dean in Arts and Sciences

Joseph Steinmetz, executive dean and vice provost of the College of Arts and Sciences, announces that Professor Steven Fink has been named to the new position of associate executive dean of curriculum and instruction. Fink currently is a faculty member in the Department of English and has played a key leadership role in the quarter-to-semester process as a faculty fellow and co-chair of the Council on Academic Affairs’ Semester Conversion Coordinating Committee.

Fink’s new role within the college will focus on working with divisional faculty, college committees, and administration in all phases of the development of the undergraduate and graduate curricula. He also will serve as the college’s university representative for undergraduate and graduate program matters and advise the executive dean and divisional deans on student academic program matters. He begins immediately in his new post on a part-time basis and will be working full time in the position on October 1.

“The divisional deans and I are very pleased that Steve Fink has agreed to serve as the first associate executive dean for curriculum and instruction in the new restructured College of Arts and Sciences. He brings to the position a great deal of experience in curricular matters from a department, college and university perspective, most notably through his recent involvement in the institution’s transition from quarters to semesters. Steve has a very broad and comprehensive knowledge of the arts and sciences curriculum, as well as the academic programs of Ohio State’s other colleges, which will be valuable as we move forward.”

Fink earned his BA from the University of California, Berkeley; MA from Columbia University; and a PhD from the University of Washington, all in English. He specializes in American literature, American studies and Jewish-American literature, and is the author of Prophet in the Marketplace: Thoreau’s Development as a Professional Writer, and is co-editor of Reciprocal Influences: Literary Production, Distribution, and Consumption in America.