Michael Keller

Title

Professor Emeritus of English

Office Building

Pugsley Center

Office

301B

Mailing Address

Pugsley Cont Ed Center 301B
English-Box 2218
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Education

• Ph.D. in english (language, literacy and rhetoric) | University of Illinois at Chicago
• M.A. in english (creative writing - poetry) | University of Illinois at Chicago
• B.A. in english | Colorado State University

Academic Responsibilities

• Coordinator of Composition, 1993-present

Awards and Honors

• Honors College Teacher of the Year Nomination, South Dakota State University, Spring 2016
• Graduate Student Mentoring Award, South Dakota State University, Spring 2015
• David Fee Memorial Lecture, South Dakota State University, Spring 2014
• Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Silver Award Excellence in News Writing, January 2014
• Keynote Address: “The Rhetoric of Modernism: the Case of Poetry’s Banquet, 1914,” American Society for the History of Rhetoric Symposium, Philadelphia, May 24, 2012
• Edward Patrick Hogan Award for Excellence in Teaching, South Dakota State University, Spring 2004
• History of the Book, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, University of Chicago, June-July 1996

Work Experience

• Faculty Senate, 2008-14
  • Vice president, 2011-12
  • President, 2012-13
  • Past president, 2013-14