Contact Information

Office: 4121 JFSB

Phone: 422-3429

Email: chris_crowe@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses ENGL 420 Literature for Adolescents

ENGL 377 Methods of Teaching Secondary English

ENGL 670 Writing the YA Novel

ENGL 320 Writing for Children and Teenagers

ENGL 218 Intro to Creative Writing

Semester Schedule: Winter 2013:

Engl 377
TTh 8:00-9:15
B103 JFSB

Engl 379
TTh 9:30-10:45
3082 JFSB

ENGL 479
M 4:30-6:30
B150 JFSB


Other University Assignments:
Coordinator, English Teaching Major
Department Rank and Status Committee

Student Consultations:
M 3:00-4:00 or by appointment

Vita: Link to Vita

Biography:

Chris Crowe completed his graduate study at Arizona State University and, after teaching high school English for ten years, taught at Himeji (Japan) Dokkyo University and BYU-Hawaii before coming to BYU in 1993. His areas of research and teaching include young adult literature, English education, and creative writing. He is past president of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) and spent 5 years as editor of the YA Literature Column for the English Journal. Dr. Crowe's books include Presenting Mildred D. Taylor (Twayne 1999); Mississippi Trial, 1955 (Penguin Putnam 2002); Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case (Penguin 2003); More than a Game: Sports Literature for Young Adults (Scarecrow, 2004); Two Roads (Deseret Book, 2007); Teaching the Selected Works of Mildred D. Taylor (Heinneman, 2007); "How I Came to Write": LDS Authors for Young Adults (Center for Christian Values in Literature, 2007); Thurgood Marshall: Up Close (Viking, 2008), and Just as Good: How Larry Doby Changed America's Game (Candlewick, 2012). He attended BYU on a football scholarship from 1972 through 1975. He married his high school sweetheart, Elizabeth, in 1973, and they have four children, two beautiful granddaughters, and two handsome grandsons.

Degrees: EdD, Arizona State U, 1986 (English Education); MEd, Arizona State U, 1980 (English Education), BA, Brigham Young Y (English), 1976.

Interests:

Adolescent Literature, creative writing, African American civil rights history