As the Assistant Provost for Teaching & Learning and Director of the Center for Teaching, Anna L. Bostwick Flaming leads a team of educational developers in designing programs that support excellence in teaching and learning.

At the University of Iowa, Anna is a member of the Teaching Effectiveness Task Force, the Excellence in Teaching and Learning Network, and a founding member of the Provost’s Task Force on First Generation College Students. She has served on many institutional boards and committees, including the General Education Curriculum Committee, the Path Forward Student Success Work Group, and the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Humanities for the Public Good Advisory Board. She previously led the Early Career Faculty Academy, which she launched and facilitated for seven years; the annual Course Design Institute, which she launched in 2016; the TILE (Transform, Interact, Learn, Engage) Program; the SoTL program; the Extraordinary Teaching Project web video series; and the Keep Teaching podcast.

Anna’s scholarly interests include inclusive teaching, course and curriculum design, the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, the Scholarship of Educational Development, the history of higher education, and the history of gender. She frequently speaks on a variety of topics, and her work has appeared in publications including the International Journal for Academic Development, the Journal on Centers for Teaching, To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, and EDUCAUSE Review. She has held national leadership roles in the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education and the SCIENCE Collaborative. She is currently an assistant editor of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.

Anna is an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies.