Assistant Dean and Research & Instruction Librarian
About me
Dana Statton Thompson is a research and instruction librarian and associate professor at Murray State University where she teaches courses on information literacy and serves as a liaison to the College of Business. Currently, Dana serves as the President of the International Visual Literacy Association. Previously, she served as a member of the ACRL Visual Literacy Taskforce and is an Institute for Research Design in Librarianship scholar. Her research and teaching interests focus on the intersection of visual literacy and news literacy, the integration of visual literacy instruction into higher education, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Her co-edited volume Unframing the Visual: Visual Literacy Pedagogy in Academic Libraries and Information Spaceswas published by ACRL Press in January 2024 and she has two publications which will be published later this year: A Slow Approach to Visual Literacy in Higher Education, published by ALA Editions Neal-Schuman and co-authored with Stephanie Beene,and Connecting Visual Literacy to Theory: Revisiting the Disruptions of Visual Thinkers in Education and Beyond, published by Routledge and co-edited with Ricardo Lopez-Leon.