Anne Dalke

Stranger in a Strange Land: Grokking in Latin America: Anne Dalke's blog as she travels during her sabbatical, Fall 2006

Anne Dalke's collection of Bryn Mawr teaching stories, Teaching to Learn/Learning to Teach: Meditations on the Classroom,  was published in Peter Lang's Education and Spirituality series (2002).

The collection of Quaker teaching stories she co-edited with Barbara Dixson, Minding the Light: Essays in Friendly Pedagogy, was published in the same series in 2004. 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. (See CV).

Anne facilitates a number of outreach initiatives, including one of the Bryn Mawr Summer Institutes for K-12 Teachers, on Science and a Sense of Place: Locating Ourselves in the World . She also serves on the Faculty Steering Committee for the Center for Science in Society, for which she has organized a number of initiatives and facilitated several working groups. She participates in Quaker initiatives both in the area and nationally, including Friends' Association for Higher Education.

Courses Taught:

Biology/English 223 - The Story of Evolution and The Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity (with Paul Grobstein, Biology)

College Seminar I - Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Storytelling as Inquiry

(with Paul Grobstein, Biology)

College SeminarII/English 249- Beauty: A Conversation Between Chemistry and Culture (with Sharon Burgmayer, Chemistry)

English 207- Big Books of American Literature

English 212 - Thinking Sex (crosslisted with the Program in Gender and Sexuality)

English 264 - Moving Passages: Narratives of Northamerican Migration

English 280 - Major Texts of the Feminist Tradition

English 308 - The Feminist Difference in Literary Theory (crosslisted

with 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 224 -Gender and Science (with Elizabeth McCormack, Physics, for the Program in Gender and Sexuality)