Annette Joy Van Dyke (born November 9, 1943) is an American women's studies academic who was a professor of interdisciplinary and women's studies at the University of Illinois Springfield from 1993 to 2010.
Van Dyke told Contemporary Authors:[1]When I earned my master's degree in English in the 1970s, I had not been assigned to read one woman writer.
My own experiments with writing the murder mystery have taught me a lot about writing, making me a better resource for my students.From 1978 to 1981, Van Dyke was an instructor in English and academic counselor at Bemidji State University.
[1][2] Her dissertation was titled, Feminist Curing Ceremonies: The Goddess in Contemporary Spiritual Traditions.
[1] She served as the associate director of the University of Cincinnati center for women's studies from 1988 to 1990.
[1] From 1990 to 1993, she was the lesbian caucus chair of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA).