Dr. Erick DuPree is an anthropologist (PhD, Queen’s University), author, and essayist. He has lectured on mythopoetics at the University of Pennsylvania and taught material culture studies at the University of the Arts.

An active critic and essayist, his writing merges anthropological insight with literary and spiritual reflection, examining how inner experience is shaped by broader cultural frameworks.

He is the author of several books on embodied practice, including Devotions For The Brave, Awaken to Mindfulness, and Men & the Goddess, and is a longtime facilitator of spaces devoted to reflection, embodiment, and inner work.

Erick’s work engages the reclamation of self, evolving ideas of masculinity, and what it means to live in conscious relationship with others. Drawing on both scholarship and lived experience, he brings an anthropological lens to the inner life—exploring how identity, desire, and meaning are not fixed, but continuously shaped through experience.