Dr. John DePriest

John DePriest, Ph.D. is an Instructor in the English for Academic and Professional Purposes Program through the Center for Global Education at Tulane University, where he has taught since 2016. His areas of focus include applied linguistics for ESL, phonetics of spoken English, language in the brain, spoken language performance, and language/music interactions. He is also the past president of Louisiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (LaTESOL). Dr. DePriest is also a musician and songwriter and an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.