Maria T. Accardi is the award-winning author of Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction (2013). She is also co-editor of Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods (2010), and editor of The Feminist Reference Desk: Concepts, Critiques, and Conversations (2017).
She is the Coordinator of Instruction and Assessment at Indiana University Southeast, a regional campus in the IU system, located in New Albany, Indiana. Accardi holds a BA in English from Northern Kentucky University, an MA in English from the University of Louisville, and an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh.
Her primary research and writing interests address the intersections of information literacy, reference work, social justice, and feminist and other critical pedagogies.
Speaking and Consulting
Coming up:
Kentucky Library Association (KLA) Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) Retreat 2026 Keynote:
Non-Judgment as Praxis: Inhabiting the Messy Middle of AI and Information Literacy
Maria T. Accardi 