Anna E. Beaudry

Anna E. Beaudry is a Program Officer for the Educating Character Initiative (ECI), supporting grantees in the actualization of the initiatives for which they have received funding. Prior to joining the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University, Anna worked as Assistant Director of Major Fellowships & Awards in the Office of Engaged Learning at Baylor University. Anna earned both her M.A. and Ph.D. in American Literature from Baylor. Anna’s research focuses on women writers from the nineteenth-century New England regionalist movement, examining the entanglement of geographic and psychological landscapes in their fiction and the ways that people and places shape each other. Her research has been published in Early American Literature, American Literary Realism, and The Eudora Welty Review. She was also a contributor to Radical Transcendentalisms (Brill 2026). Her specialisms lie in ecocriticism, material feminisms, queer theory, and place-based writing. Outside of work, Anna enjoys gardening, cooking, and hanging out with her rescue mutt, Caddie.