Andrew Zalot is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

His research explores book ban discourse at the intersection of online and local communities.

His most recent publication “Censorship and Shifting Contexts in Children’s Literature,” published in The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature, discusses the public’s understanding of censorship and reappraisal of canonical authors in the genre.

Andrew received his master’s and bachelor's degrees in English from Texas A&M University.