Her research asks how poems and the documents that surround them circulate through time and space and travel among persons. She is especially interested in genre play in 20th century U.S.-based poetry, as explored through small press publishing, material text and the archive. Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include modern and contemporary literature, creative writing, and textual production/bookmaking.

Her articles and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Chicago Review, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Momentous Inconclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner, Nonsite.org, and elsewhere. She is also the author of three books of poems and several chapbooks, most recently “If You Love Error So Love Zero” (Trembling Pillow, 2018). Since 2008, she has edited the micropress Projective Industries.

Anderson has a Ph.D. and a B.A. in English and fundamentals – issues and texts from the University of Chicago, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University. From 2016 to 2019, she was a member of the Tsinghua-Michigan Society of Fellows and taught at Tsinghua University.