LeeAnn Derdeyn

Clinical Associate Professor
Southern Methodist U

Biographical Sketch: LeeAnn Derdeyn, Ph.D., is Clinical Associate Professor at The University of North Texas, an R1 HSI. Her interdisciplinary research in Ethics and 20th/21st C Transatlantic English Literature (American, British, and Irish) examines interrelated environmental, women’s, and human justice issues. An award-winning teacher, Dr. Derdeyn loves her home in DMI where she gets to collaborate on Project-Based Learning with colleagues across varied fields. Dr. Derdeyn has presented and written on Literature, Environmental Humanities, Project-Based Learning at prestigious conferences in the US, England, Ireland, and Italy and published in Modernism/modernity, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), College Literature, English Studies and more, plus book chapters and poems. Books in progress include: Blindsighted: Alienation and Affirmation in T. S. Eliot and Love the Jackalope: Insecurity in Contemporary English Literature from David Foster Wallace to Ali Smith. When not grading, LeeAnn spends time with her family, is the church pianist and choir director, sings with the 150-person Credo Community Choir which performs at the Moody Performance Hall twice yearly, reads and writes, keeps bees, and is in the process of a Texas Master Beekeeper’s Certification. She is curious about, and wants to be out in, the wide world around us.