Anita is Senior Lecturer and Director of Secondary Teacher Education at Bates and previously taught high school English for over ten years. In the past, she has taught a wide variety of ages and abilities, from first graders in Jersey City, NJ, through adult learners, teaching subjects as diverse as French and Alternative Education programming.<\/p>\n
She has mentored many new and student teachers, and has presented statewide workshops on a wide range of topics, including autism in the classroom, special education topics and laws, multiliteracies, and effective teaching methodologies. <\/p>\n
As a Fulbright Scholar in India in 2016 and again in 2023, Anita taught undergraduates and explored issues of literacy and inclusion in preK-12 schools and programs. Subsequent to her first Fulbright, she engaged in research on inclusive education for children with disabilities in India. Thanks to a Bates-specific Phillips Fellowship, she recently conducted a study on education nonprofits in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n
Anita has a Ph.D. from University of New Hampshire in the area of Adolescent Literacy. Her dissertation entitled \u201c\u2018It\u2019s Just Part of What We Do\u2019: Adolescent Interactions with Multimodal Texts Across Social Spaces,\u201d won two national awards. She holds an M.Ed. from Harvard in Human Development and Psychology with a special focus on Language and Culture, and a B.A. from Dartmouth College in French and Education. Her scholarly interests include Teacher Education, Literacy, Comparative and International Education, and Special Education.<\/p>\n
Anita has a chapter entitled \u201c\u2018There\u2019s a relationship\u2019: Negotiating cell phone use in the high school classroom\u201d published in Researching New Literacies: Design, Theory, and Data in Sociocultural Investigation (Knobel & Lankshear, eds). She has published numerous articles as well as a chapter in an anthology entitled The first Year of Teaching: Real World Stories from America\u2019s Teachers.<\/p>\n
Anita has five adult children and lives in Lewiston, Maine, with her husband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"featured_media":5939,"template":"","class_list":["post-273","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-adolescent-literacy","expertise-comparative-education","expertise-public-education-reform","expertise-special-education","expertise-teacher-education","what-i-teach-comparative-education","what-i-teach-literacy","what-i-teach-special-education","what-i-teach-teacher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/768"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5938,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/273\/revisions\/5938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}