Dr. Kevin J. Gardner

Professor

Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature

Twentieth-Century British Poetry

John Betjeman

The Country House in English Literature

Carroll Science, room 308

(254) 710-6895

Kevin_Gardner@baylor.edu

Education

Ph.D. Tulane University

M.A. College of William and Mary

B.A. University of St. Thomas

Kevin J. Gardner, Professor of English, works in eighteenth- and twentieth-century British literature.  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, and Renascence.