About

Dr. Derritt Mason, Ph.D. (they/he) is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary who researches and teaches at the intersection of children's and young adult literature, cultural and media studies, and gender and sexuality. Dr. Mason is the author of Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture and the co-editor of Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Might Be and Queer as Camp: Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality. Dr. Mason's scholarship has won multiple awards, including the Children's Literature Association Honor Book Award (for Queer Anxieties) and Edited Book Award (for Queer as Camp).

Dr. Mason also hosts and produces the podcast 3QTL: Three Questions about Teaching and Learning, which explores current issues in post-secondary education. Dr. Mason's research and writing on teaching and learning has appeared in venues including Teaching & Learning Inquiry and Pedagogy, and their educational leadership has been recognized with several awards, including a 2025 Faculty of Arts Leadership and Mentorship Award in Justice, Equity, and Transformation. At the University of Calgary's Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, Dr. Mason has served as Acting Senior Director of (2024-25) and Educational Leader in Residence (2022-24).

Dr. Mason has given public talks, lectures, and keynotes at local and international venues including the Stonewall National Museum and Archives, the Centre for Research in Children's Literature at the University of Cambridge, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Department of Teacher Education, the Institute for Research on Digital Learning, the National Center for the Study of Children's Literature at San Diego State University, and Calgary Public Libraries. They have been interviewed by CBC Radio and the Globe and Mail, among others.