Dr. LeeAnn Derdeyn is Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Multidisciplinary Innovation at the R1 University of North Texas. With two decades of business and philanthropic experience, her interdisciplinary research, writing and teaching examines 20th/21st Century Transatlantic (American, British, Irish) Literature and Human Justice, specifically the interrelation of women’s, minority, and environmental issues.

While Dr. Derdeyn continues to pursue her original work on modernists Eliot, Pound, Joyce, and Yeats, she also pursues field studies in modern Irish poetry, contemporary women writers, and the study of teaching and learning, She is published on multiple subjects in multiple venues.

She gardens, is a musician and refuses to spoil her grandkids. LeeAnn has been keeping bees for 3 years now and occasionally gives “Plant of The Month” talks with very little notice, always checking the credibility and edibility of all her information. She is currently in the Texas Master Beekeeper’s Program and testing for the Advanced level this year, in spite of knowing so much and yet, still so little about bees.