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Dr. Kathy Anders is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and serves as the Graduate Studies Specialist in the University Libraries at Texas A&M University. Her work bridges writing studies, information literacy, and scholarly communications, with a focus on 18th- and 19th-century British literature and culture. She actively collaborates with academic librarians and writing centers to enhance information literacy programs and address challenges in digital preservation and copyright education.
Education:
- Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2014)
- M.A., Duquesne University (2007)
- M.L.I.S., University of Pittsburgh (2005)
- B.A., St. John’s College, Santa Fe (2003)
Her research explores intersections of writing instruction, digital scholarship, and historical literature. Key areas include open educational resources (OER), citation web archiving, and the role of argument structures in 19th-century detective fiction. She has secured grants to study licensing for OER adoption and strategies to mitigate link rot in electronic theses and dissertations.
Grants & Projects:
- Examining licensing and adoption of open educational resources
- Citation web archiving program design
- Graduate student information literacy initiatives
Her teaching emphasizes practical applications of information literacy in academic writing, with courses on composition, rhetoric, and research methodologies. She actively promotes librarian roles in composition instruction and has pioneered multi-format graduate information literacy programs.
