Anna Beaudry

Anna is the Assistant Director of Major Fellowships and Awards, where she works with students of all backgrounds to apply for opportunities like the Fulbright, the Critical Language Scholarship, the Truman, and many more. She also teaches the "Community-Based Global Learning" course for the Office of Engaged Learning, where students cultivate challenging and ongoing practices like cultural humility, decolonization, and fair trade learning. 

Anna completed her PhD in 19th-century American literature in 2024. Her dissertation compares four female writers from the New England regionalist movement, examining the treatment of geographic and psychological landscapes in their fiction and the ways that people and place shape each other. With roots in Maine, Anna misses the rocky coasts, piney woods, and rich seasons of home but has learned to find community in Texas, too, and loves to help her students do the same. Anna also earned her master’s degree at Baylor University in May 2020. 

Before coming to Baylor, Anna taught high school literature and rhetoric. When she is not on campus, you can find her engrossed in a puzzle, putzing around in her vegetable garden while warding off invading squirrels and feral cats, or watching murder mysteries with her husband Troy and her rambunctious puppy Caddie.