Karen Roggenkamp

My blogs

Industry	Education
Occupation	English Professor
Introduction	Willkommen! I am one of the co-editors of BBZ, which is a place for high school, middle school, and college students to write about books and reading. Like Susan, I teach literature at Texas A&M University-Commerce, specializing in both American literature and children's and adolescent literature. Please note that the opinions I express are mine alone and are not meant to represent my employer, Texas A&M University-Commerce. Before I went to graduate school, I worked as the director of a middle school library. I was given about $10,000 a year to buy books. I was in heaven. Every week I poured through the leading review journals, reading about all the fabulous books being published for adolescent and young adult readers. And then I got to buy them. And read them myself! Yes, I was in heaven. And then, many years later, after I became a professor, I found myself (surprisingly) back in the world of adolescent and young adult literature. Now I get to read it and think about it and teach it. And while I don't have $10,000 each year to spend on books, I'm still pretty happy! Learn more about what I teach at http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/kroggenkamp/
Favorite Books	TOO MANY TO COUNT! But here's some of them: The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger), Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman), Ruth Hall (Fanny Fern), American Born Chinese (Gene Yang), Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J. K. Rowling)