Dr. Deborah Vriend Van Duinen

Department of Education

Dr. Deborah Vriend Van Duinen is an Associate Professor of English Education at Hope College. In addition to teaching preservice teachers, Deborah is the Program Director of The Big Read Lakeshore, a month-long community-wide reading program of Hope College partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Her research interests include adolescent literacy, young adult literature, and community literacy.