Dr. Amber Dyer joined Great Hearts in 2021 to build the first two-campus Upper School in Texas and mentor leaders in Great Hearts’ national Apex Leadership Program. Prior to joining Great Hearts, Dr. Dyer was a university professor and administrator for over 20 years and taught over 2,000 university students the classics. While at the University of Dallas, she taught business communication for graduate business students, served as the Assistant Dean of Students, and designed the summer program Arete: An Invitation to the Classics for High School Students. More recently, Dr. Dyer served as a Senior Consultant for the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture’s Cowan Center for Education where she co-wrote the business plan for, fundraised, and mentored teachers and
administrators to establish classical liberal arts Cowan Academies in traditional public schools.
Dr. Dyer holds the Ph.D. in literature with distinction from the University of Dallas Institute of Philosophic Studies. She has published on such diverse authors as C.S. Lewis, Dostoevsky, and Rousseau and is the recipient of the Conference for Christianity and Literature’s James Sims Prize for Literature. She was Dr. Louise Cowan’s final graduate assistant and mentee and speaks to audiences frequently on the transformational work of classical liberal education. She and her husband, tech entreprenuer and author Dr. John Dyer, are the proud parents of two Great Hearts Irving scholars.
