Dan Williford, PhD, MLIS

Dan Williford is a librarian, instructor, and literary scholar at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. His work bridges librarianship, book history, literary scholarship, and critical information literacy, with particular interests in queer bibliography and the material and bibliographic afterlives of Oscar Wilde. His research examines how collecting, cataloging, bibliography, publishing, and archival preservation shape literary history, while his teaching explores how knowledge is produced, mediated, and contested across print and digital environments.