Deirdre English is the former editor-in-chief of Mother Jones magazine, where she worked for eight years, until 1986. She has written and edited works on a wide range of topics related to investigative journalism, cultural politics, gender studies, and public policies
English co-founded one of the first women's studies programs in the US and also taught American Studies and magazine article writing at the College of Old Westbury of the State University of New York. She has taught at the City College of New York and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work includes For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Expert's Advice to Women, co-authored with Barbara Ehrenreich and published with a new epilogue in 2004 (Anchor/Doubleday). Her work also includes Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers and Complaints and Disorders: the Sexual Politics of Sickness
She has contributed articles, commentaries, and reviews to Mother Jones, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, and Signs: A Feminist Journal, among other publications. Her essay on the work of photographer Susan Meiselas was published in Carnival Strippers, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2003. Her essay “The Fear that Feminism will Free Men First” has been included in numerous anthologies, the most recent in Women's Liberation! Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can, edited by Honor Moore and Alix Kates Shulman, Library of America, 2021
English has taught in the school of journalism since the year 2000 and directed the Felker magazine course for six years, during which Brink magazine, which she edited and produced with her students, won many awards and was named twice Best Student Magazine in the country in the Mark of Excellence contest, judged by the Society of Professional Journalists
She has given seminars on narrative writing, on “Gender and journalism” and “Intersectional identities”. She also taught a large lecture course on “Great issues in journalism” in the fall of 2021
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