Danny J. Anderson is a Professor of Spanish and the Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs and Area Studies Centers in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Kansas.

Professor Anderson's research focuses on literary and cultural production in Mexico. He has lived and conducted research in Xalapa at the Centro de Investigaciones Lingüístico-Literarias of the Universidad Veracruzana, in Puebla, and in Mexico City. He co-edited the book Cultural Studies in the Curriculum: Teaching Latin America (2003) with Professor Jill Kuhnheim. Presently he is completing a book on the history of literary reading in Mexico between 1870 and 1970, tentatively entitled Literate Imaginings in Mexico. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship as well as a W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. He is also the editor of Pan-American Literature in Translation for the University of Texas Press.

Professor Anderson received his BA in Liberal Arts (1980) from Austin College and his M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1985) in Spanish from the University of Kansas. After three years as a faculty member at the University of Texas in Austin, he joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Kansas. He served as the Interim Director for the Center of Latin American Studies from 1998-1999 and was the chair of Spanish and Portuguese from 2000-2005.