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Ann Dixon is co-founder and chief technologist of Serendip and a member of Serendip Studio's steering group. A Bryn Mawr English major who later went to Penn for computer science grad school, she is interested in learning beyond and between the boundaries of space, time and academic disciplines. She welcomes all explorers to Serendip Studio. |
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For 35 years, Anne Dalke taught English and Gender Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where she received the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Change Master Fund award for her contributions to social betterment through scholarship. She now teaches and facilitates workshops in several Philadelphia area jails and prisons, as an affiliate of The Petey Greene Program, the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program and Let’s Circle Up, a Restorative Justice project. A Quaker with a particular interest in resistant teaching practices, she is the author of Teaching to Learn/Learning to Teach: Meditations on the Classroom (2002); co-editor, with Barbara Dixson, of Minding the Light: Essays in Friendly Pedagogy (2004); with Jan Trembley, of A Special Issue on Emergence Theory, in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2007); with Elizabeth McCormack, of On Beyond Interdisciplinarity, Journal of Research Practice (2007); and co-author, with Jody... More |
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Ingrid taught for many years in the Biology Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, she teaches K-12 teachers in a variety of professional development settings. Her teaching emphasizes actively engaging students in order to foster understanding of important biological concepts. She and her colleagues have developed multiple minds-on activities for teaching biology and scientific thinking to middle school and high school students, as well as students in college-level biology courses for non-majors. These activities include both hands-on activities (available at /sci_edu/waldron/) and discussion/worksheet activities (available at /exchange/bioactivities).
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Jody is a Language Arts teacher in her third year of working with the talented students and staff at YouthBuild Philadelphia. Before joining YouthBuild, she taught Education and Writing at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, where she also co-facilitated reading and writing classes with colleagues, college students and people who were incarcerated in Philadelphia jails. Jody is a qualitative researcher and education activist who works with community members for equity and excellence in urban schools. She has a Ph.D in Reading/Writing/Literacy from University of Pennsylvania. In Steal This Classroom:Teaching and Learning Unbound (punctum press), she and co-author Anne Dalke explore the dynamic ecology of learning and teaching in multiple spaces. |
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Julia Rose Lewis has been a Serendipian since 2008. Her research ambition is to draw on her background in the natural sciences, philosophy of science, and medicine in order to create experimental and hybrid works. She has written or performed with poets, scientists, and chefs in Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her doctoral disseritonation in creative and critical writing was titled Against Originality: what is lost without discourse between poetry and philosophy of science? Serendip has continued to be an important place for her to inquire into open-ended problems, the broader and more transdisciplinary, the better. She teaches creative and critical writing. She is part of Serendip Communications and will be a Serendipian for life.
Serendip Studio Activities:
Holding Patterns
Against Originality
Saint Dwynwen’s Day (1/25/19)
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Kristin Lindgren directs the Writing Center and teaches courses in literature, writing, and disability studies at Haverford College. She and her students collaborate every year with artists at the Center for Creative Works. She is co-editor of two books on Deaf culture, Signs and Voices and Access (Gallaudet University Press),and author of numerous articles and essays on illness and disability. Her work appears in collections including Gendering Disability, Illness in the Academy, Disability and the Teaching of Writing, Disability and Mothering, Transforming the Academy, and A Cultural History of Disability. She enjoys convening events and exhibitions that bring together scholars, artists, curators, and activists. Kristin has been involved for many years with Let’s Circle Up, a restorative justice project founded by men incarcerated at SCI-Phoenix. She envisions teaching and learning as creative, multimodal, lifelong practices that can help us to build a more inclusive world. |
