She received her Ph.D. in English Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she spent two years as a National Science Foundation IGERT fellow in the Landscape, Ecological and Anthropogenic Processes program. Professor Druschke’s work fuses rhetorical theory with conservation practice, centering on issues of water quality. She has collaborated on a number of multidisciplinary research projects with the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, The Urban Wildlife Institute at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, and, most recently, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Atlantic Ecology Division.