Daune O'Brien

Daune O’Brien has been a Lecturer in the Department of English since 2014, where she teaches Advanced Composition, Academic Writing, Business Writing, and Technical Writing.

In 2015, she was competitively selected to join the Online Course Development Cohort, a rigorous collaboration resulting in the development and launch of multiple asynchronous versions of Professional Writing courses.  She was a TRACE Faculty Research Assistant in the College of Information Studies from 2017-2018, piloting developmental accessibility software.

Her research interests are heavily informed by disability justice, inclusion, universal design theory, and feminist studies. In 2024, she co-founded the English Department’s Disability Research and Technology Hub, an evolving project that received its start-up funding through a TLTC Grant.

Daune O'Brien is the recipient of the 2024 Teaching Excellence Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching.

She holds an M.A. in English Literature, with a concentration in Language, Rhetoric, and Writing.