Biography

Dr. Anna Santucci passionately designs and facilitates faculty development experiences such as workshops, seminars, and consultations that promote active engagement in evidence-based teaching strategies and critical reflection around the best ways to support students’ learning.  Her interdisciplinary work focuses on fostering Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion within learning environments. Her scholarship as well as her local and international collaborative projects on critical inclusive pedagogies are informed by her background in performance theory, applied theatre, and intercultural education. Before joining URI’s Office for the Advancement of Teaching Learning in 2019, Anna earned her Ph.D. as a select member of the Open Graduate Education program at Brown University, where she taught undergraduates and also served for several years as Graduate Teaching Consultant at the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, facilitating professional development programs and mentoring new consultants. Anna taught at Dickinson College as well, where she also collaborated with its Eberly Multilingual Writing Center. She has years of college teaching experience in Italian language and theatre, performance as activism, and arts integration in intercultural education.