Joan F. Kaywell, Ph.D.
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Receiving FCTE's 2000 Honor Award for outstanding service to the organization and the profession of teaching from President, Jo Higgins at state conference.
Joan F. Kaywell is a Full Professor of English Education at the University of South Florida where she has won Teaching Awards in 1991, 1994, and 1996. 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) and is currently serving as its Membership Secretary; she is a Past-President of FCTE and is currently Program Chair/2nd Vice-President of FCTE; she will be President again in 2008.
Dr. Kaywell is published in several journals, regularly reviews young adult novels for The ALAN Review, 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 one: Adolescents At Risk: A Guide to Fiction and Nonfiction for Young Adults, Parents, and Professionals (1993). Her latest work, Dear Author: Letters of Hope, is her first trade book and will be available from Philomel spring.
Father Jerry Kaywell, Catholic priest of the Diocese of Venice, Florida, is also an award-winning musician. He has generously donated proceeds from his concerts to St. Andrew's school and parish. To read more about this wonderful man, his talents and future concert and mass schedules,