Teaching Composition at the Two-Year College: Volume 2

This sequel to Teaching Composition at the Two-Year College (2016) provides busy two-year college literacy instructors with key up-to-date professional readings focusing on important issues that have emerged since the first book was published.

Most of the sixty-three selections were previously published in scholarly journals and books, including Teaching English in the Two-Year College and College English. Additional essays by current and recently graduated two-year college students give on-the-ground insight, while introductions to the individual sections by the volume editors and others provide valuable context for the variety of articles.

Featured sections in this collection include

• Practical Advice from Students to Two-Year College Teachers
• Working Conditions for Teachers Are Learning Conditions for Students
• Hiring Diverse Faculty and Staff
• Students' Right to Their Own Language
• Grading and Assessment
• Developmental Education Reform
• Working with Diverse Students

Patrick Sullivan teaches English at CT State Community College Manchester in Manchester, Connecticut (formerly Manchester Community College; the twelve community colleges in Connecticut were consolidated into CT State Community College in 2023). He is the author of (2014); Economic Inequality, Neoliberalism, and the American Community College (2017); and Democracy, Social Justice, and the American Community College (2021). He is also the editor of Sixteen Teachers Teaching: Two-Year College Perspectives (2020), which received the 2022 CCCC Outstanding Book Award for Edited Collection, and coeditor with Howard Tinberg and Sheridan Blau of Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom (2017), which received the 2019 CCCC Outstanding Book Award for Edited Collection, and Deep Reading, Deep Learning (2023). Sullivan enjoys reading, listening to music, and spending time with his wife, Susan, his children, Bonnie Rose and Nicholas, and his grandsons, Oscar and Gustav (pictured above, Gustav on the left, Oscar on the right). He would like to dedicate his work on this book to the memory of his granddaughter, Marigold Hope.

Jamila M. Kareem, PhD, is an associate teaching professor of writing at the University of California Santa Cruz and an award-winning scholar in writing studies. A CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award recipient, Dr. Kareem's award-winning scholarship has appeared in the peer-reviewed journals Literacy in Composition Studies, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, and Journal of College Literacy and Learning, and in numerous edited collections in her research area of critical race theory and racial hierarchies in writing education. She is currently a lead editor on the latest edition of Macmillan Learning's EasyWriter composition handbook. In her free time, she is a proud Trekkie, K-drama nerd, and ARMY.

Mark Reynolds retired from teaching English after thirty-seven years at the community college in Brewton, Alabama, now named Coastal Alabama Community College. He has published a number of articles about writing, reading, and professional issues related to two-year college teaching, and he edited two book collections about teaching English in two-year colleges. From 1994 to 2001, he edited Teaching English in the Two-Year College, and in 2011, the national TYCA executive committee named TETYC's annual Best Article Award after him. In retirement, he continues occasional professional writing. Currently, he assists those interested in the history of two-year college English and he mentors community writers. Recently, with several others he created a three-week series of programs and readings celebrating community writers in the Brewton area. He continues to walk five miles and exercise daily and makes sure to laugh at himself seven to ten times a day. He can be reached at markreynolds208@gmail.com.

Darin Jensen is an associate dean and associate professor of English, linguistics, and writing studies at Salt Lake Community College. He is the editor of Teaching English in the Two-Year College. He and his coeditor, Dr. Brett Griffiths, won the Mina Shaughnessey Prize and the Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award for Two-Year College Writing Studies: Rationale and Praxis for Just Teaching. He works with MLA to facilitate professional development for reading and writing pedagogies for open-access institutions. He is probably busy with email or working in his garden.

Alfredo Celedón Luján is from Nambé, New Mexico. He has been highly educated as a cashier and stocker for Safeway, Piggly Wiggly, and 7-Eleven stores. He took additional advanced courses in gas-station attending; state-department go-ferring; dump-truck driving; weed chopping; post-hole digging; basketball, volleyball, and track coaching; and teaching. He has been an NEH fellow, a bedfellow, and a rock-throwing fellow. He has dug many ditches. His most effective teacher was the shovel. His formal education includes stints as a make-do student at Nambé Elementary School, Canyon Abyss School, Central-Anglo Grammatical Canon School, The Nutritional Junior High School, Howdy Dowdy Crowdy School, and Mesa Plateau School. As a tentative student, he graduated from Pojoaque High School. As a provisional student he received degrees from New Mexico State University and the Bread Loaf School of English. His writing has appeared in What Is College-Level Writing? (Volumes I and II); Deep Reading; Engaging American Novels; Making Sense: A Real-World Rhetorical Reader; Courageous Leadership in Early Childhood Education; Trickster; English Journal; California English; La Herencia del Norte; Bread Loaf and the Schools; New Mexico Humanities Review; and Writers Without Borders, among other books and periodicals. He's still kicking.

Luján has taught at Pojoaque Valley Schools and the Native American Prep School located in San Miguel County, New Mexico. He is also the former dean of students and teacher of English at Monte del Sol Charter School, a public charter high school in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is also a former president of NCTE. He retired from Monte del Sol in 2023.