Curriculum vitæ

D. N. Keane teaches English at Georgia Southern University and is currently writing a commentary on the 1662 Book of Common Prayer tentative titled Lighten our Darkness (IVP Academic) with Dr Samuel Fornecker.

Dr Keane authored How to Use the Book of Common Prayer (IVP 2024) with Samuel L. Bray, with whom he also edited the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition (IVP Academic 2021). He is a contributor to the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, The International John Bunyan Society research blog, Notes & Queries, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, and Anglican Theological Review.

Dr Keane took a PhD in English at University of St Andrews, writing a thesis titled The Use of the Prayer Book: The Book of Common Prayer (1549-1604) as Technical Writing for an Oral-Aural Culture (supervised by Professor Neil Rhodes and Dr Gulio Pertile). He took an MA in English at Georgia Southern University, writing a thesis on Alexander Pope’s commentary on the Iliad (supervised by Professor Julia Griffin) and studied literature and Bible (BA) at Johnson University in Knoxville, TN, were he served as a research assistant to Dr Daniel Overdorf (funded by a grant from the Appalachian College Association).

He has won and been nominated for teaching and mentorship awards and built an extraordinary record of committee work and departmental service. He has supervised graduate student instructors, mentored new faculty, collaborated in developing and implementing program assessment, led professional development workshops, represented his college on Faculty Senate, and served as department parliamentarian. He has extensive experience in designing and teaching online courses. He developed and assessed curriculum for the First-Year Experience Program and assessed online course design for the Center for Teaching and Technology. He served for several years in the leadership of the Georgia Southern Writing Project, providing professional development and guidance for local Middle and High School teachers.

With Dr S. P. Cooper, he is the co-host of Critical Readings, a podcast of literary analysis. His verse can be read in Lighten Up, The Chained Muse, Better Than Starbucks, Earth & Altar, and The Slumbering Host, an anthology edited by Daniel Rattelle and Clinton Collister (Little Gidding Press 2019).

He serves on the Liturgical Commission and the Commission on Ministry for the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia. From 2012 to 2018 he served on the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, during which time he contributed to several volumes including Lesser Feasts and Fasts (2018).

A complete vita is available upon request.

See Dr Keane’s research interests.