Kevin Van Anglen’s main areas of interest are American literature to 1865, European-American literary relations, religion and literature, and literature and the environment. \u00a0He teaches undergraduate courses in all these areas as well as courses in American literature 1865-1950 and British literature to 1670.\u00a0 (These include EN 220, 221, 322, 538, 539, 545, 546, and 579.) \u00a0 He serves as an editor of the Princeton Thoreau Edition, for which he has edited Thoreau\u2019s\u00a0Translations<\/i>\u00a0of ancient Greek and Sanscrit texts, and helped edit a dozen other series volumes; the author of a book on Milton\u2019s New England reception; editor of a collection of Thoreau\u2019s quotations; and coeditor of an interdisciplinary anthology on the environment.<\/p>\n
He has also written or have forthcoming articles on the early nineteenth-century American reception of Virgil, Dante, Milton, and Samuel Johnson; aspects of Thoreau\u2019s short nature essays (\u201cthe excursions\u201d); and the scholarly neglect or misunderstanding of religion\u2019s role in American culture.\u00a0 He is currently coediting and contributing to an essay collection on the classics and Anglo-American romanticism; planning another essay collection for the Thoreau Society to commemorate Thoreau\u2019s bicentennial in 2017; and finishing a book on Hawthorne, Milton, and the idea of aristocracy in New England. \u00a0Van Anglen is the Keeper of F. O. Matthiessen\u2019s library at Harvard; coeditor of the journal,\u00a0Religion and the Arts<\/i>; and just finished six years on the Thoreau Society\u2019s Board of Directors (which gave him its Walter Harding Distinguished Service Award for 2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70978,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56545\/revisions\/70978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}