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Danny J. Anderson

Danny J. Anderson, Professor and Associate Dean for the Interdisciplinary Programs and Area Studies Centers in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, earned 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.  His 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.  Over the past decade, his research has become increasingly interdisciplinary in his examination of Mexican literary publishing, Mexican cultural studies, and the intersection between research and teaching.  In addition to articles and book chapters, he has published Vicente Leñero: The Novelist as Critics (1989) and co-edited with Prof. Jill Kuhnheim Cultural Studies in the Curriculum: Teaching Latin America (2003).  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 has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship as well as a W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence.  His graduate and undergraduate teaching have included courses on a variety of topics in Latin American literature, the Spanish American short story, and especially Mexican literature with an emphasis on the novel.  He has been exploring the pedagogical possibilities of “service learning” in his undergraduate classes.