Edward Zlotkowski
Plenary Speaker

Edward Zlotkowski is a professor of English at Bentley College (Waltham, Mass.) where in 1990 he founded the Bentley Service-Learning Center. 

Zlotkowski received his B.A. in English and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. He has written and spoken extensively on a wide range of service-learning and engagement-related topics, and served as general editor of the American Association for Higher Education’s 21-volume series on service-learning in the academic disciplines.

He also served as editor of Successful Service-Learning Programs (1998); Service-Learning and the First-Year Experience (2002), and as co-editor of Students as Colleagues (2006). 

He has led workshops for both national and regional organizations as well as individual campuses in the United States and abroad on creating service-learning programs and courses. His non-service learning publications have focused on contemporary American poetry, and German and English romanticism.