Anne Dalke
Anne's research interests include emergent pedagogies, feminist theory and narrative traditions, revisionary work in the canon of American literatures, and the intersections between science and literature. In 2007-8, she co-edited two special issues: one with Jan Trembley of the Alumnae Bulletin on emergence theory, and one with Elizabeth McCormack of the Physics Department on interdisciplinarity. During her sabbatical in 2006, she kept a travel blog about her experiences studying in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Chile.
The collection of Quaker teaching stories Anne co-edited with Barbara Dixson, Minding the Light: Essays in Friendly Pedagogy, was published in Peter Lang's Education and Spirituality series in 2004. Anne's collection of Bryn Mawr teaching stories, Teaching to Learn/Learning to Teach: Meditations on the Classroom, was published in the same series in 2002. See her CV for other publications and activities.
On campus, Anne is active in the Social Justice Pilot Program and the Teaching and Learning Initiative (she has a partnership with Tanisha Powell in the Housekeeping Department). She serves on the Steering Committee for the Program in Gender and Sexuality, and participates in the Evolving Systems Working Group, a new initiative experimenting with emergent form, meaning, and aesthetics. She is a member of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, and participates in Quaker initiatives both in the area and nationally, including Friends' Association for Higher Education.
A number of Anne's activities have recently been featured in Bryn Mawr Now:
Center for Science in Society discussion groups publish special issues of academic journals
BMC students, faculty present their work in DC
How Well is Your Thesis Hidden? Publishing Students' Work on the World Wide Web
Alumna, Professor Collaborate to Create Intergenerational Conversation About Feminism
Others have been mentioned in the Alumnae Bulletin:
Bryn Mawr faculty analyze the language of interdisciplinary conversations
On course: Bryn Mawr courses and their reading lists
COURSES TAUGHT:
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Balch Seminar - Food for Thought: The Omnivore's Dilemma (with Peter Brodfuehrer, Biology)
- Biology/English 223 - The Story of Evolution and The Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity (with Paul Grobstein, Biology)
- College Seminar - Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Storytelling as Inquiry (with Paul Grobstein, Biology)
- College Seminar/English 249- Beauty: A Conversation Between Chemistry and Culture (with Sharon Burgmayer, Chemistry)
- CompSci/English 257 - Gender and Technology (with Laura Blankenship, Instructional Technology)
- English 207- Big Books of American Literature
- English 209 - Literary Kinds: Thinking Through Genre, From Blogs to...?
- English 212 - Thinking Sex (cross listed with the Program in Gender and Sexuality)
- English 264 - Moving Passages: Narratives of Northamerican Migration
- English 271 - House of Wits: The Intersecting Wor(l)ds of Alice, Henry, and William James
- English 280 - Major Texts of the Feminist Tradition
- English 293 - Introduction to Critical Feminist Studies
- English 308 - The Feminist Difference in Literary Theory (cross listed with the Program in Gender and Sexuality)
- General Studies 224 - Gender and Science (with Elizabeth McCormack, Physics, for the Program in Gender and Sexuality)
- General Studies 290 - Playing with Categories: Re-doing the Politics of Sex and Gender (with Jennifer Patico, Haverford Anthropology, for the Program in Gender and Sexuality)
- General Studies 290: GAS Works--Interdisiplinary Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality