Christopher E. Crowe

Who is Christopher E. Crowe?

Christopher Everett "Chris" Crowe is an American professor of English and English education at Brigham Young University specializing in young adult literature. In addition to his academic work, Crowe also writes books for the young-adult market, including the heralded Mississippi Trial, 1955.

Crowe taught English and coached football and track at McClintock High School in Tempe, Arizona, for ten years. He attended Brigham Young University on a football scholarship from 1972 to 1976 and graduated with a B.A. in English. He earned an M.Ed. and an Ed. D. in English education from Arizona State University in 1986.

Prior to joining the BYU faculty in 1993 Crowe had been a professor at Himeji Dokkyo University and Brigham Young University Hawaii. In 2007, Crowe was awarded the Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Research and Creative Arts Award from BYU and in 2008 was awarded the Nan Osmond Grass Professorship in English. In November 2010, he received the Ted Hipple Service Award from the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the NCTE.

Crowe is a Latter-day Saint. He currently serves as a couselor in the Provo Utah Edgemont South Stake presidency.