English Department Faculty
Lynne Anderson
Director, Program for Multilingual Learners
Lynne Anderson
Contact
Stokes Hall S465
Telephone: 617-552-6463
Email: lynne.anderson.1@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Bates College
- M.A., University of Massachussets, Boston
Research Interests
English Language Learning; Food and Culture
Department
Biography
Lynne Christy Anderson is the director of the Program for Multilingual Learners at Boston College. Trained in Applied Linguistics, she teaches writing, literature, and oral language production courses to undergraduate and graduate students at BC. The author of Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens, Lynne is interested in the intersection between language, culture, identity, and food. She teaches narrative non-fiction writing workshops on the topic of food and culture, including a course abroad in Paris each spring for BC’s Office of International Programs. Lynne is interested in the role of creative writing in the composition process of second language learners. Prior to teaching at the college level, she worked with immigrant communities and taught adult ESOL in the Boston Public Schools. She also developed cross-cultural food studies programs in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and worked in collaboration with Whole Foods Market in a program serving low-income Boston public middle school students.
Publications
Books
- Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens. University of California Press, 2010.
Articles
- “Echoes of Home: Chihuahua, Mexico to The Northeast Kingdom.” Edible Green Mountains, Fall 2013.
- “From mechanics to meaning through formative peer feedback.” TESOL’s Essential Teacher 1.5, 2004.
- “Classroom collaboration as discovery.” Teaching for Our Times, 4, 34-9. 2004.
- “Hopes and wishes of the parents: a video on parenting issues in an ESOL classroom.” Field Notes 13.1, 11-12. 2003.
Reviews
- Schwartz, Dona, et al. In the Kitchen. Heidelberg, Germany: Kehrer Verlag, 2010. Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, 11:1. 2011.
Radio Broadcasting and Poscasts for Breaking Bread
- Here and Now Radio, WBUR (national NPR show, 10/26/10)
- Public Radio Kitchen (WBUR, Boston Public Radio, 7/12/10)
- The Callie Crossley Show (WGBH, Boston Public Radio, 7/7/10)
- Here on Earth: Radio without Borders (Wisconsin Public Radio, 9/10/10)
- Vermont Edition ( Vermont Public Radio)
- Focus (WILL Public Media, Chicago)