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Patricia McEachern is a Professor of French and the Dorothy Jo Barker Endowed Professor for the Study of Animal Rights at Drury University, where she has served since 1996. She founded and directs the Drury University Forum on Animal Rights and established the university's Animal Studies minor in 2011.
Her educational background includes a B.A. from the University of Central Florida (1981), an M.A. from Florida State University (1985), and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (1995). She completed a graduate exchange at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (1990), studying with Jacques Derrida.
Dr. McEachern's research spans Animal Rights, Nineteenth-Century French Literature, Hagiography, and Religious Studies. She authored A Holy Life: The Writings of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes and Deprivation and Power: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa in Nineteenth-Century French Literature, with ongoing work on Saint Catherine Labouré and the Animal Rights debate. She teaches French language courses, Animals and Literature, and co-teaches the Bob Barker Endowment-funded Animal Ethics course.
As Director of the Forum on Animal Rights, she secured the Bob Barker Endowment Fund and has served as Chair of the Faculty Affairs, Academic Affairs, and Honorary Degree Committees. Her scholarship has been featured in national media outlets including television, radio, and print interviews.
