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Dr. Duke Pesta is a tenured professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and the Academic Director of FreedomProject Academy, an online classical, Christian school for students from Kindergarten through high school. He is one of the foremost experts on the dangers and ideological biases behind Common Core and the federal takeover of education, delivering over 700 lectures on the topic across the country. He has testified before a number of state legislatures and participated in more than 5000 radio and television interviews, from Canada to China, and from Mexico to the U.K. Dr. Pesta was instrumental in developing and implementing an elective Bible course that is currently available for some public high school students in Texas. His collective videos and presentations top more than five million views online, and much of his work is available at FreedomProject.com and fpeusa.org.
Dr. Pesta received his M.A. in Renaissance literature from John Carroll University and his PhD in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature from Purdue University. He has taught at major research institutions and small liberal arts colleges on a wide variety of subjects at the graduate and undergraduate levels, including courses on Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, the Bible, Russian literature, Christian apologetics, Dante, and C.S. Lewis.
Dr. Pesta’s book, The Renaissance and the Postmodern: A Study in Comparative Critical Values, was published by Routledge in 2016. Co-authored with Professor Thomas Martin of Florida Atlantic University, The Renaissance and the Postmodern reconsiders postmodern readings of Renaissance texts by engaging in a dialectics the authors call comparative critical values. Rather than concede the contemporary hierarchy of theory over literature, the book takes the novel approach of consulting major Renaissance writers about the values at work in postmodern representations of early modern culture. He has published scholarly essays on Renaissance literature, American literature, Shakespeare, Spenser, Byron, Michelangelo, and the history of medicine and anatomy. Dr. Pesta has also written journalistic articles on a wide range of conservative issues for a variety of magazines and journals.
Dr. Pesta’s weekly political and cultural commentary program, The Dr. Duke Show, can be viewed at the FreedomProject website and on Facebook and YouTube. In January 2018, Dr. Pesta and FreedomProject Media partnered with The College Fix, a top 30 conservative website devoted to exposing progressive abuses on university campuses. Dr. Pesta hosts the weekly segment Campus Roundup for the Fix.
Dr. Pesta is an engaging speaker and teacher, presenting at home school conventions and educational conferences across the nation on topics including homeschooling, the decline of morality and critical thinking in the public schools, and the myriad ways that colleges and universities indoctrinate students. He is a frequent guest interlocutor with Stefan Molyneux on Freedom Domain Radio. Dr. Pesta’s teaching has garnered seven teaching awards at four different universities, and he is a major voice for conservative and Christian issues on campus and in culture at large.
