Instructor
E-mail: forstner@stolaf.edu
Phone: x3245
In 1987, Dan Forstner carried his University of St. John English degree to the South Bronx, where he learned not all life answers can be found in D.H Lawrence and Virginia Woolf novels. He assisted mentally ill homeless at Columbia University Community Services for two years before turning his attention to teaching. Dan split the next dozen years between New York City elementary school children and Saint Paul junior high English students. He has worked at St. Olaf since 2003, supervising student teachers and teaching education and writing courses. Somewhere along the way he picked up the nickname Dangerous Dan, a source of amusement for his students and confusion for his parents. Dan earned a Master of Arts in Early Adolescent Education from Bank Street College in New York City, 1991. His patron saint is John Dewey.
