AnaLouise Keating is a prominent scholar specializing in women-of-color theory, multicultural feminist theory, transformational pedagogies, queer theory, spiritual activism, and Gloria Anzaldúa. Her address at the Anything but Silence conference is titled "Voicing Transformation: From Status-Quo Stories to 'Cosmic Connections.'"

She is the author or editor of eight books, including Teaching Transformation: Transcultural Classroom Dialogues; Women Reading, Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde, EntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldúa, this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation (co-edited with Gloria Anzaldúa), Perspectives: Gender Studies (co-edited with Renae Bredin), Bridging: How and Why Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s Life and Work has Transformed Our Own, (co-edited with Gloria González-López), Gloria Anzaldúa’s Interviews/Entrevistas, and The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader. Professor Keating has also published numerous book chapters, journal articles, and reviews focusing on Latina authors, African-American literature, queer studies, multiculturalism, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American writers, feminist/womanist theory, and pedagogy.

Keating received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and is currently a professor of women’s studies at Texas Woman’s University.

Read more about Dr. Keating's work at her university website.