Keith Kroll
Department of English— Kalamazoo Valley Community College, 6767 West O Ave Kalamazoo, MI 49003
Office: 7434—Phone: 269-488.4350 — Web: www.kkroll.com — E-Mail: ekroll@kvcc.edu
Education
Ph.D. English. Michigan State University. 1996
M.A. English. University of California-Riverside. 1986
B.A English. University of California-Davis. 1981
A.A. General Studies. Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA. 1978
Teaching Experience
• Kalamazoo Valley Community College 1986-
• University of California-Riverside 1984-86
Administrative Experience
• Chair, New School 2006-07
• English 110: College Writing Coordinator 2000-2005
• Chair, English Department, Arcadia Commons Campus 1995-98
Professional Service
• Community College Review, Editorial Board 2009-2012
• Consulting Reader, TETYC /CCR 1994-/2006-
• Executive Committee, MLA Discussion Group 1994-97
• North Central Accreditation 1994-95
• NCTE College Section Nominating Committee 1994-95
• Program Chair, TYCA Midwest 1993
• Executive Board, TYCA Midwest 1990-95
Awards
• NEH, Landmarks of American History and Culture Program 2008-2011
• 2007 NCTE Diana Hacker TYCA Outstanding Programs in English 2007
• Faculty Sabbatical 2009, 1999, 1992
• Council of North Central Two-Year Colleges Research Grant 1993
• NEH Advancing the Humanities Grant-Humanities, Science, and Technology 1990-92
Professional Memberships
• National Council of Teachers of English
• College Conference on Composition and Communication
• Community College Humanities Association
• Popular Culture Association
• TYCA-Midwest
Publications
Books
Editor. Contemplative Teaching and Learning. New Directions for Community Colleges. Vol. 151. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010.
Co-editor. The Politics of Writing in the Two-Year College. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2001.
Editor. Maintaining Faculty Excellence. New Directions for Community Colleges. Vol. 79. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
Articles and Book Chapters
“The End of the Community College English Department.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College. (Forthcoming December 2012)
“Teaching in the Commercialized Community College.” Radical Teacher. (Forthcoming Spring 2012)
“What I Wish Jill Biden Would Talk About With Respect to America’s Community Colleges.” Truthout.org. April 16, 2011.
“Let Them Eat Workforce Training.” With Barry Alford. Dissident Voice. Dissident Voice.com July 29, 2009.
“On Paying Attention: Flagpoles, Mindfulness, and Teaching Writing.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College 36 (September 2008): 69-78.
“Introduction.” In The Politics of Writing in the Two-Year College. With Barry Alford. 2001. v-viii.
“Scholarship, Tenure, and Composition Studies in the Two-Year College.” With Barry Alford. In Academic Advancement in Composition Studies. Ed. Richard C. Gephardt and Barbara Genelle Smith Gephardt. New Jersey: Lawrence EarlBaum, 1997. 57-70.
“The Practitioner as Classroom Researcher.” Literacy Network: A Journal of Literacy Networks 1.2 (May 1995): 55-67.
“A Profile of Community College English Faculty and Curriculum.” Community College Review 22.3 (December 1994): 37-54.
“(Re)Viewing Faculty Training and Development.” In Two-Year College Students: Essays for a New Century. Ed. Mark J. Reynolds. Urbana: NCTE, 1994. 196-211.
Contributor. “Writing in the Margins: A Search for Community College Voices.” In Writing Ourselves into the Story: Unheard Voices from Composition Studies. Ed. Sheryl I. Fontaine and Susan Hunter. SIU Press, 1993. 293-21.
“Empowering Faculty as Teacher-Researchers.” In Fostering a Climate for Faculty Scholarship in Community, Technical, and Junior Colleges. Ed. George B. Vaughan and James C. Palmer. Washington, DC: AACJC, 1992. 22-37.
“Using Reader Response in an American Literature Classroom.” In The Whole Language Catalog. Ed. Kenneth S. Goodman, Lois Bridges Bird, and Yetta M. Goodman. American School Publishers, 1991.
“Community College Staff Development: Institutional Incentive for Professional Publication.” Innovation Abstracts, February 3, 1989, Vol. 11, No. 4. NISOD.
“Institutional Incentive for Professional Publication.” Community College Humanities Review, vol. 10, 1989: 48-50.
“Henry W. Allen (Will Henry/Clay Fisher): A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources.” Bulletin of Bibliography, Vo. 44, No. 4 (December 1987): 219-31.
“Len Fulton.” With Dan Pearce. Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1986. Ed. J. M. Brook. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987. 286-94.
“Henry W. Allen (Will Henry/Clay Fisher). Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1985. Ed. Jean W. Ross. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986. 319-28.
Book Reviews
rev. of Gateway to Opportunity? A History of the Community College in the United States, by J.M. Beach, in TETYC 39.3 (March 2012): 312-14.
rev. of Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father’s Search for the Wild, by Tom Montgomery Fate, in Fourth Genre, Spring 2012: 203-05.
rev. of Against Schooling: For an Education That Matters, by Stanley Aronowitz, in TETYC,
September 2010: 83-85.
rev. of Community College Faculty: At Work in the New Economy, by John S, Levin, Susan Kalter, ad Richard L. Wagoner, in TETYC, March 2009: 323-25.
rev. of Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change, by, Ira Shor, in TETYC, October 1993: 237.
rev. of The Modern American Novel 1914-1945: A Critical History, by Linda Wagner-Martin, TETYC, May 1991: 153-54.
rev. of The Best Western Stories of Loren D. Estleman, The Bloomsbury Review, July/August 1989: 18.
rev. of Will Henry/Clay Fisher (Henry W. Allen), by Robert L. Gale, in North Dakota Quarterly, Summer 1985: 191-92.
Selected Conference Presentations, Workshops, and Seminars
“Contemplative Teaching and Learning in the Composition and Communication Classrooms.” Pre-Conference Workshop. College Conference on Composition and Communication. St. Louis, MO. March 21, 2012.
NEH. Landmarks of American History and Culture Program:
-“Thomas Jefferson: Legacies and Landmarks.” Washington, DC and Charlottesville, VA
July 2011.
- “Plymouth, MA: Landmarks of Pilgrims and the Wampanoag.” Plymouth, MA. July 2010.
-“Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age.” Hayes Presidential Center. Fremont, OH.
May 2009.
-Concord, MA: Transcendentalism and Social Action in the 19th Century.” Concord, MA
July 2008.
Summer Session for Contemplative Curriculum Development. The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. Smith College. Aug. 9 -14, 2009.
“The Use of Contemplative Practices in the Teaching of Writing and Communications.”
College Conference on Composition and Communication. San Francisco. March 13, 2009.
Spring Retreat for Academics. The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. Menla Retreat Center. Phoenicia, NY. March 6-9, 2008.
Viewpoints
“Kalamazoo schools jumps on outsourcing bandwagon.” Kalamazoo Gazette, January 21, 2011.
“Community colleges exist for reasons beyond meeting the needs of business.” Kalamazoo Gazette, January 19, 2009.
“Schools promote ‘No Child Let Outside Policy.” Kalamazoo Gazette, October, 2008.
“Weigh options carefully when choosing a college.” Kalamazoo Gazette, February, 2007.
Calendar
The 1982 Jack London Biographical Calendar. With Lisa A. Wininger. Davis, CA: 1981.
Interviews
“The Man from Motor City: An Interview with Loren D. Estleman, creator of Amos Walker and champion of the hardboiled tradition.” The Armchair Detective. Winter 1991. 4-11.
“Talking About Two Frontiers: An Interview with Loren D. Estleman.” The Bloomsbury Review, July/August 1989: 18-19.
“An Interview with Loren D. Estleman.” Western Ohio Journal, Vol. 10 (Spring 1989): 9-14.
“An Interview with Len Fulton.” With Dan Pearce. Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1986. Ed. J.M. Brook. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987. 290-94.
Department of English— Kalamazoo Valley Community College, 6767 West O Ave Kalamazoo, MI 49003
Office: 7434—Phone: 269-488.4350 — Web: www.kkroll.com — E-Mail: ekroll@kvcc.edu
Education
Ph.D. English. Michigan State University. 1996
M.A. English. University of California-Riverside. 1986
B.A English. University of California-Davis. 1981
A.A. General Studies. Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA. 1978
Teaching Experience
• Kalamazoo Valley Community College 1986-
• University of California-Riverside 1984-86
Administrative Experience
• Chair, New School 2006-07
• English 110: College Writing Coordinator 2000-2005
• Chair, English Department, Arcadia Commons Campus 1995-98
Professional Service
• Community College Review, Editorial Board 2009-2012
• Consulting Reader, TETYC /CCR 1994-/2006-
• Executive Committee, MLA Discussion Group 1994-97
• North Central Accreditation 1994-95
• NCTE College Section Nominating Committee 1994-95
• Program Chair, TYCA Midwest 1993
• Executive Board, TYCA Midwest 1990-95
Awards
• NEH, Landmarks of American History and Culture Program 2008-2011
• 2007 NCTE Diana Hacker TYCA Outstanding Programs in English 2007
• Faculty Sabbatical 2009, 1999, 1992
• Council of North Central Two-Year Colleges Research Grant 1993
• NEH Advancing the Humanities Grant-Humanities, Science, and Technology 1990-92
Professional Memberships
• National Council of Teachers of English
• College Conference on Composition and Communication
• Community College Humanities Association
• Popular Culture Association
• TYCA-Midwest
Publications
Books
Editor. Contemplative Teaching and Learning. New Directions for Community Colleges. Vol. 151. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010.
Co-editor. The Politics of Writing in the Two-Year College. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2001.
Editor. Maintaining Faculty Excellence. New Directions for Community Colleges. Vol. 79. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
Articles and Book Chapters
“The End of the Community College English Department.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College. (Forthcoming December 2012)
“Teaching in the Commercialized Community College.” Radical Teacher. (Forthcoming Spring 2012)
“What I Wish Jill Biden Would Talk About With Respect to America’s Community Colleges.” Truthout.org. April 16, 2011.
“Let Them Eat Workforce Training.” With Barry Alford. Dissident Voice. Dissident Voice.com July 29, 2009.
“On Paying Attention: Flagpoles, Mindfulness, and Teaching Writing.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College 36 (September 2008): 69-78.
“Introduction.” In The Politics of Writing in the Two-Year College. With Barry Alford. 2001. v-viii.
“Scholarship, Tenure, and Composition Studies in the Two-Year College.” With Barry Alford. In Academic Advancement in Composition Studies. Ed. Richard C. Gephardt and Barbara Genelle Smith Gephardt. New Jersey: Lawrence EarlBaum, 1997. 57-70.
“The Practitioner as Classroom Researcher.” Literacy Network: A Journal of Literacy Networks 1.2 (May 1995): 55-67.
“A Profile of Community College English Faculty and Curriculum.” Community College Review 22.3 (December 1994): 37-54.
“(Re)Viewing Faculty Training and Development.” In Two-Year College Students: Essays for a New Century. Ed. Mark J. Reynolds. Urbana: NCTE, 1994. 196-211.
Contributor. “Writing in the Margins: A Search for Community College Voices.” In Writing Ourselves into the Story: Unheard Voices from Composition Studies. Ed. Sheryl I. Fontaine and Susan Hunter. SIU Press, 1993. 293-21.
“Empowering Faculty as Teacher-Researchers.” In Fostering a Climate for Faculty Scholarship in Community, Technical, and Junior Colleges. Ed. George B. Vaughan and James C. Palmer. Washington, DC: AACJC, 1992. 22-37.
“Using Reader Response in an American Literature Classroom.” In The Whole Language Catalog. Ed. Kenneth S. Goodman, Lois Bridges Bird, and Yetta M. Goodman. American School Publishers, 1991.
“Community College Staff Development: Institutional Incentive for Professional Publication.” Innovation Abstracts, February 3, 1989, Vol. 11, No. 4. NISOD.
“Institutional Incentive for Professional Publication.” Community College Humanities Review, vol. 10, 1989: 48-50.
“Henry W. Allen (Will Henry/Clay Fisher): A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources.” Bulletin of Bibliography, Vo. 44, No. 4 (December 1987): 219-31.
“Len Fulton.” With Dan Pearce. Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1986. Ed. J. M. Brook. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987. 286-94.
“Henry W. Allen (Will Henry/Clay Fisher). Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1985. Ed. Jean W. Ross. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986. 319-28.
Book Reviews
rev. of Gateway to Opportunity? A History of the Community College in the United States, by J.M. Beach, in TETYC 39.3 (March 2012): 312-14.
rev. of Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father’s Search for the Wild, by Tom Montgomery Fate, in Fourth Genre, Spring 2012: 203-05.
rev. of Against Schooling: For an Education That Matters, by Stanley Aronowitz, in TETYC,
September 2010: 83-85.
rev. of Community College Faculty: At Work in the New Economy, by John S, Levin, Susan Kalter, ad Richard L. Wagoner, in TETYC, March 2009: 323-25.
rev. of Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change, by, Ira Shor, in TETYC, October 1993: 237.
rev. of The Modern American Novel 1914-1945: A Critical History, by Linda Wagner-Martin, TETYC, May 1991: 153-54.
rev. of The Best Western Stories of Loren D. Estleman, The Bloomsbury Review, July/August 1989: 18.
rev. of Will Henry/Clay Fisher (Henry W. Allen), by Robert L. Gale, in North Dakota Quarterly, Summer 1985: 191-92.
Selected Conference Presentations, Workshops, and Seminars
“Contemplative Teaching and Learning in the Composition and Communication Classrooms.” Pre-Conference Workshop. College Conference on Composition and Communication. St. Louis, MO. March 21, 2012.
NEH. Landmarks of American History and Culture Program:
-“Thomas Jefferson: Legacies and Landmarks.” Washington, DC and Charlottesville, VA
July 2011.
- “Plymouth, MA: Landmarks of Pilgrims and the Wampanoag.” Plymouth, MA. July 2010.
-“Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age.” Hayes Presidential Center. Fremont, OH.
May 2009.
-Concord, MA: Transcendentalism and Social Action in the 19th Century.” Concord, MA
July 2008.
Summer Session for Contemplative Curriculum Development. The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. Smith College. Aug. 9 -14, 2009.
“The Use of Contemplative Practices in the Teaching of Writing and Communications.”
College Conference on Composition and Communication. San Francisco. March 13, 2009.
Spring Retreat for Academics. The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. Menla Retreat Center. Phoenicia, NY. March 6-9, 2008.
Viewpoints
“Kalamazoo schools jumps on outsourcing bandwagon.” Kalamazoo Gazette, January 21, 2011.
“Community colleges exist for reasons beyond meeting the needs of business.” Kalamazoo Gazette, January 19, 2009.
“Schools promote ‘No Child Let Outside Policy.” Kalamazoo Gazette, October, 2008.
“Weigh options carefully when choosing a college.” Kalamazoo Gazette, February, 2007.
Calendar
The 1982 Jack London Biographical Calendar. With Lisa A. Wininger. Davis, CA: 1981.
Interviews
“The Man from Motor City: An Interview with Loren D. Estleman, creator of Amos Walker and champion of the hardboiled tradition.” The Armchair Detective. Winter 1991. 4-11.
“Talking About Two Frontiers: An Interview with Loren D. Estleman.” The Bloomsbury Review, July/August 1989: 18-19.
“An Interview with Loren D. Estleman.” Western Ohio Journal, Vol. 10 (Spring 1989): 9-14.
“An Interview with Len Fulton.” With Dan Pearce. Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1986. Ed. J.M. Brook. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987. 290-94.