Dr. Kevin J. Gardner
Professor
Interests
Restoration & 18th-Century British Literature
20th-Century British Poetry
John Betjeman
The Country House in English Literature
Education
Ph.D. Tulane University
M.A. College of William and Mary
B.A. University of St. Thomas
Bio
Kevin J. Gardner works in eighteenth- and twentieth-century British literature. He is the editor of a new anthology of postwar British Poetry, Building Jerusalem: Elegies on Parish Churches, being published by Bloomsbury in 2016. He is the author of Betjeman: Writing the Public Life (published in the UK as Betjeman and the Anglican Imagination) and the editor of three volumes of Betjeman’s writings: Betjeman on Faith: An Anthology of His Religious Prose, Poems in the Porch: The Radio Poems of John Betjeman, and Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of his Religious Verse. He has published essays in Eighteenth-Century Life, Theatre Survey, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, Papers on Language and Literature, English Language Notes, CEA Critic, South Central Review, M/MLA Journal, Notes and Queries, ANQ, Christianity and Literature, Religion and the Arts, Literature and Theology, Renascence, Reinardus, and Sewanee Review.