Faculty Member
Joan F. Kaywell is Professor of English Education at the University of South Florida where she has won several teaching awards, most notably the Jerome Krivanek Award. She is passionate about assisting preservice and practicing teachers in discovering ways to improve literacy. She donates her time extensively to the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and its Florida affiliate (FCTE): She is Past President of NCTE’s Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN), recently served as its Membership Secretary for two terms, and is the recipient of the 2012 Hipple Award for outstanding service; she is a Past-President of FCTE twice and served almost two decades on its Board of Directors. Dr. Kaywell is published in several journals; regularly reviews young adult novels for The ALAN Review, The Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy, and Signal; and has edited two series of textbooks: Four volumes of Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics (1993, 1995, 1997, 2000; six volumes of Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with [Various] Issues (Family 1999, Societal 1999, Identity 1999, Health 2000, End-of-Life 2000, Abuse 2004; and has written two: Adolescents At Risk: A Guide to Fiction and Nonfiction for Young Adults, Parents, and Professionals (1993) and Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics: Addressing Critical Issues in Today’s Classrooms (2010). Her first trade book Dear Author: Letters of Hope (Philomel, 2007) is intended to get students to choose reading as a healthy escape from their life’s negative circumstances. Kaywell fervently believes that teachers and authors are often the unsung heroes of children on the brink of self-destruction. By offering books to children to help them momentarily escape the pain of growing up, teachers offer teenagers a constructive way to survive the crisis, find hope, and know that they are not alone.
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About Joan F. Kaywell Ph.D
Joan F. Kaywell is Professor of English Education at the University of South Florida where she has won several teaching awards, most notably the Jerome Krivanek Award. She is passionate about assisting preservice and practicing teachers in discovering ways to improve literacy. She donates her time extensively to the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and its Florida affiliate (FCTE): She is Past President of NCTE’s Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN), recently served as its Membership Secretary for two terms, and is the recipient of the 2012 Hipple Award for outstanding service; she is a Past-President of FCTE twice and served almost two decades on its Board of Directors. Dr. Kaywell is published in several journals; regularly reviews young adult novels for The ALAN Review, The Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy, and Signal; and has edited two series of textbooks: Four volumes of Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics (1993, 1995, 1997, 2000; six volumes of Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with [Various] Issues (Family 1999, Societal 1999, Identity 1999, Health 2000, End-of-Life 2000, Abuse 2004; and has written two: Adolescents At Risk: A Guide to Fiction and Nonfiction for Young Adults, Parents, and Professionals (1993) and Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics: Addressing Critical Issues in Today’s Classrooms (2010). Her first trade book Dear Author: Letters of Hope (Philomel, 2007) is intended to get students to choose reading as a healthy escape from their life’s negative circumstances. Kaywell fervently believes that teachers and authors are often the unsung heroes of children on the brink of self-destruction. By offering books to children to help them momentarily escape the pain of growing up, teachers offer teenagers a constructive way to survive the crisis, find hope, and know that they are not alone.
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