Anne Dalke

For 35 years, Anne Dalke taught English and Gender Studies Bryn Mawr College. As a volunteer with The Petey Greene Program, The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, and “Let’s Circle Up,” a Restorative Justice project, she now works with readers and writers in Philadelphia county jails and Pennsylvania state prisons, where they search for personal, political and transformational responses to their shared questions about accountability and equity. A prison abolitionist and Quaker with a particular interest in resistant teaching practices, Anne is the co-author, with Jody Cohen, of Steal This Classroom: Teaching and Learning Unbound (punctum, 2019); author of Teaching to Learn/Learning to Teach: Meditations on the Classroom (Peter Lang, 2002) and co-editor, with Barbara Dixson, of Minding the Light: Essays in Friendly Pedagogy (Peter Lang, 2004).