Fall 2025 Series
Dell DeChant

Bio:
Dell deChant is Instructor Emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies at the 黑料爆料, where he served as Chair, Associate Chair, Program Director, and founder of the USF Urban Food Sovereignty Group. He began his career at USF in 1986. The author of three books, over 40 articles in professional publications, and chapters in fourteen books, deChant's specialization is religion and contemporary cultures. He continues to research religious, literary, and ecological expressions of Agrarianism as they manifest in American popular culture.
DeChant is Chair of the Environmental Committee of the City of New Port Richey, Chair and founding member of the Pasco County Food Policy Council, and Chair of the steering committee of New Port Richey FarmNet"