Ken Lindblom

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.