Dan Williford, PhD, MLIS

I am a librarian, teacher, and literary scholar at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. My work has three connected areas. I teach critical information literacy, in library instruction and in literature and media studies courses, helping students examine how information becomes visible, credible, and authoritative. My research is in queer bibliography, with a particular focus on the material and bibliographic afterlives of Oscar Wilde. And I lead Sarasota Archives, a community oral history and archival project documenting the LGBTQ history of Sarasota.

Each of these areas asks how records are made and kept, and how those decisions shape what can later be known.