Kevin Van Anglen
vananglenkp@aol.com
Instructor.  A.B., Princeton; B.A. (Honours), M.A., Cambridge; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard

Instructor.  A.B., Princeton; B.A. (Honours), M.A., Cambridge; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard [all in English or English and American Literature].
Teaching and Research Interests: American literature; European-American literary relations; religion and culture; history and literature; literature of the environment.
Selected Publications: Author of The New England Milton: Literary Reception and Cultural Authority in the Early Republic (1993); and of articles in The Age of Johnson, Vol. 6, ed. Paul A. Korshin (1993); Dante Studies (2001); Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism, ed. Wesley T. Mott (1996); ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance (1981, 1984); Literature Compass (2008); The Princeton University Library Chronicle (1977); Seeing into the Life of Things: Essays on Literature and Religious Experience, ed. John L. Mahoney (1998); and Studies in the American Renaissance, ed. Joel A. Myerson (1980, 1983, 1990).  Editor of Translations (1986) in The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau; and of “Simplify, Simplify” and Other Quotations from Henry David Thoreau (1996).  Coeditor of Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (2008) with accompanying website.  Editorial Contributor to ten other published Thoreau Edition volumes; The Notebooks of Henry D. Thoreau; The Poetical Works of Robert Browning; and several publications of the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History.
Work in Progress: Editorial contributor to Correspondence (3 vols.), and Journal 7: 1853-1854 in The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (all in press or forthcoming); preparing two more volumes on Milton and 19th-century American literature; articles in Dante Studies, and The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism, ed. Joel A. Myerson, Sandra H. Petrulionis, and Laura Dassow Walls (both in press).
Professional Activities: Coeditor of journal Religion and the Arts; Keeper of the F. O. Matthiessen Room, Harvard University; Member of the Board of Directors, The Thoreau Society, Inc.
Honors, Grants, Awards: Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology supported by grants from the Baker Foundation, Cambridge MA; Boston University; Harvard University; and Yale University Press (2002-2004). Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1985-1986); Research Grant, National Council of the Teachers of English (1978).