Dr. Andrea Baer is an Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Information at the University of Texas-Austin. She teaches courses in librarianship, academic librarianship, information literacy, library instruction, and scholarly communication. Prior to joining the iSchool, Andrea worked in academic libraries and instruction librarianship for over a decade. She also taught academic writing, source-based research, and literature. Andrea’s research interests include critical and digital literacies, inclusive pedagogies, affect and learning, critical reflective practice, instruction librarians teaching roles and practices, and the intersections between information literacy and writing. For more about her research, please see her ORCID page https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6361-948X.
PhD, comparative literature, University of Washington
MS, information sciences, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
critical and digital literacies
inclusive pedagogies
affect and learning
critical reflective practice
instruction librarians' teaching roles and practices