KEN LINDBLOM
Professor Emeritus of English
Ph.D. Syracuse University
English teacher education; history, theory, and practice of composition-rhetoric
Humanities 2090
Kenneth.Lindblom@stonybrook.edu
I prefer to be contacted by email.
Twitter: @Klind2013
- Biography
Biography
Ken Lindblom teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in pedagogy, literature, and non-fiction at Stony Brook University. He is a former Dean of the School of Professional Development and former director of the English Teacher Education Program. Previously he was Associate Professor of English at Illinois State University, Director of the Mid-State Teacher Center (Verona, NY), and an English teacher at Columbia High School in East Greenbush, NY. He has won eight awards for his teaching, and he was named a 2012 Educator of Excellence by the New York State English Council.
From 2008-2013, Ken Lindblom was editor of English Journal, the oldest and most widely-read, peer-reviewed national journal devoted to teaching English grades 6-12. He co-authored the book, Grammar Rants, with Patricia A. Dunn (Heinemann 2011). He co-authored the fourth edition of Making the Journey: Being and Becoming a Teacher of English Language Arts (Heinemann 2016), and he co-authored all three volumes of the Continuing the Journey series from the National Council of Teachers of English (2017, 2018, 2019). He was a member of the Executive Board of the English Language Arts Teacher Educators (2014-2018), and he was a member of the Executive Board of the United University Professions from 2015-2017.
- Books and Edited Journals
BOOKS AND EDITED JOURNALS
Books
Lindblom, Ken and Leila Christenbury. Continuing the Journey 3: Becoming a Better Teacher of Language, Listening, and Speaking. Urbana, IL: NCTE. 2019
Lindblom, Ken and Leila Christenbury. Continuing the Journey 2: Becoming a Better Teacher of Authentic Writing. Urbana, IL: NCTE. 2018
Christenbury, Leila and Ken Lindblom. Continuing the Journey: Becoming a Better Teacher of Literature and Informational Texts. Urbana, IL: NCTE.2017.
Christenbury, Leila and Ken Lindblom. Making the Journey: Being and Becoming a Teacher of English Language Arts, Fourth Edition. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann,2016.
Dunn, Patricia A. and Ken Lindblom. Grammar Rants: How a Backstage Tour of Writing Complaints Can Help Students Make Informed, Savvy Choices About Their Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook Publishers, 2011.
Editor, English Journal (September 2008-July 2013; 30 issues)
- Selected Articles
SELECTED ARTICLES
Refereed Journal Articles
Lindblom, Ken, Amanda Rivera, and Michael Radice. “Future Perfect: Exploring Artificial Intelligence with Young Adult Literature.” English Journal. 109.6 (2020): 73-80.
Invited: Christenbury, Leila and Ken Lindblom. “The Journey is All.” English Journal. 109.3 (2020): 20–23.
Lindblom, Ken, Nicole Galante, Sara Grabow, and Brittany Wilson. “Composing Infographics to Synthesize Literary and Informational Texts.” English Journal 105.6 (July 2016): 37-45
Brockman, Elizabeth and Ken Lindblom. "Promising Connections: Uniting Writing Teachers." Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education. 1.1 (2012): 13-19.
Lindblom, Ken. “Treating State Exams as Authentic Assessments.” English Leadership Quarterly 30.2 (2007): 10-11.
Invited: 2700-word Review of James Fredel’s Rhetorical Action in Ancient Athens: Persuasive Artistry from Solon to Demosthenes. Carbondale: SIUP, 2006. JAC: Journal of Advanced Composition 27.1-2 (2007): 412-419.
Lindblom, Kenneth and Patricia A. Dunn. “Grammar Rant Analysis: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar Instruction.” English Journal. 95.5 (2006): 71-77.
Lindblom, Kenneth and Patricia A. Dunn. “The Roles of Rhetoric in Constructions and Reconstructions of Disability.” Rhetoric Review 22.2 (2003): 167-174.
Dunn, Patricia A. and Kenneth Lindblom. “Why Revitalize Grammar?” English Journal 92.3 (2003): 43-50.
Lindblom, Kenneth. “Cooperating with Grice: An Interdisciplinary Metaperspective on Uses of Grice’s Cooperative Principle.” Journal of Pragmatics 33.10 (2001): 1601-1623.
Lindblom, Kenneth. “What Exactly is Cooperative in Grice’s Cooperative Principle? A Sophisticated Rearticulation of the CP” RASK: An International Journal of Language and Communication.14 (2001): 49-73.
- Selected Book Chapters
SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS
Lindblom, Ken. “Foreword.” In Garcia, Antero, Shelbie Witte, Jennifer S. Dale, Eds. Playing with Teaching: Considerations for Implementing Gaming Literacies in the Classroom. The Netherlands: Brill, 2020.
Lindblom, Ken. “Foreword.” In Mack, Nancy. Engaging Writers with Multigenre Research. New York: Teachers College P, 2015.
Lindblom, Kenneth. “Foreword.” In Giouroukakis, Vicky and Maureen Connolly. Getting to the Core of English Language Arts Grade 6-12: How to Meet the Common Core State Standards with Lessons from the Classroom . Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. 2012. viii-X.
Lindblom, Kenneth. “Interview—Kenneth Lindblom: Spinning Gold from Old Straw.” Working in the Archives: Practical Research Methods for Rhetoric and Composition. Ramsey, Alexis E, Wendy B., Sharer, Barbara L'Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo, Eds. Carbondale: SUIP, 2010. 250-252. (Invited brief essay as expert in archival research methods in composition)
Lindblom, Kenneth, Will Banks and Rise Quay. “Mid-Nineteenth-Century Writing Instruction at Illinois State Normal University: Credentials, Correctness and the Rise of a Teaching Class” Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition. Patricia Donahue and Gretchen Flesher Moon, Eds. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. 94-114.
Invited: Lindblom, Kenneth. “The Cooperative Principle.” 5000-word entry for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Mey, Jacob, Section Ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005 (print), 2006 (online).
Dunn, Patricia A. and Kenneth Lindblom. “Developing Savvy Writers by Analyzing Grammar Rants” Language in the Schools: Integrating Linguistic Knowledge Into K-12 Teaching. Eds. Kristin Denham and Anne Lobeck. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 2005. 191-208.
Lindblom, Kenneth and Patricia A. Dunn. “Cooperative Writing ‘Program’ Administration at Illinois State Normal University: The Committee on English of 1904-05 and the Influence of Professor J. Rose Colby.” Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline . Eds. Barbara L'Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo. Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2004. 37-70.