About Dr. Bickmore
Dr. Steven Bickmore taught secondary English for 25 years in Jordan School district located in the suburbs south of Salt Lake City, Utah. He taught every grade and every level from 9th grade to 12th grade English. Primarily, sophomore English and a senior-level Advanced Placement course in English Literature and English Language, but he also taught first and second year Latin. He also served as a department chair, a student government advisor and boys’ soccer coach.
He was President of ALAN in 2019 and served as co-editor of The ALAN Review from 2009 - 2014.
I'm also the founder and director of LSU Young Adult Literature Conference and Seminar and this weekly academic blog. This conference seeks to bring together academics, young adult authors, librarians, and teachers to discuss the teaching and researching of young adult literature. The summit has transformed in the UNLV Summit on the Teaching and Research of Young Adult literature. The blog is an opportunity for me to connect with fascinating people and share my passion for this topic.
After seven wonderful years at LSU, I moved to UNLV where an Associate Professor of English education in the Department of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education fromm 2015 to 2021. I was promoted to full Professor July 1, 2021 and then retired on Dec. 31, 2021.
My favorite government agency is the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). During my teaching career I was fortunate enough to participate in four NEH summer seminars, one NEH summer institute and was a recipient of the NEH/Reader’s Digest Teacher Scholar Award for the 1989-1990 school year.
Dr. Steven Bickmore taught secondary English for 25 years in Jordan School district located in the suburbs south of Salt Lake City, Utah. He taught every grade and every level from 9th grade to 12th grade English. Primarily, sophomore English and a senior-level Advanced Placement course in English Literature and English Language, but he also taught first and second year Latin. He also served as a department chair, a student government advisor and boys’ soccer coach.
He was President of ALAN in 2019 and served as co-editor of The ALAN Review from 2009 - 2014.
I'm also the founder and director of LSU Young Adult Literature Conference and Seminar and this weekly academic blog. This conference seeks to bring together academics, young adult authors, librarians, and teachers to discuss the teaching and researching of young adult literature. The summit has transformed in the UNLV Summit on the Teaching and Research of Young Adult literature. The blog is an opportunity for me to connect with fascinating people and share my passion for this topic.
After seven wonderful years at LSU, I moved to UNLV where an Associate Professor of English education in the Department of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education fromm 2015 to 2021. I was promoted to full Professor July 1, 2021 and then retired on Dec. 31, 2021.
My favorite government agency is the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). During my teaching career I was fortunate enough to participate in four NEH summer seminars, one NEH summer institute and was a recipient of the NEH/Reader’s Digest Teacher Scholar Award for the 1989-1990 school year.