Thomas Gardner

• Contemporary American Poetry
• Literature and Theology
• The Lyric Essay
• Emily Dickinson

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
• M.A., Syracuse University
• B.A., Bucknell University

• Modern Language Association
• Academy of Teaching Excellence

• Alumni Teaching Award, 1991
• Diggs Teaching Scholar Award, 1994
• NEA Creative Writing Fellowship: Poetry, 1995-96
• Fulbright Bicentennial Chair, Univ. of Helsinki, 1996-97
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 2002
• Commonwealth of Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, 2003
• Wine Teaching Award, 2006

Books

• Lyric Theology: Art and the Doctrine of Creation (Baylor Univ. Press, 2022)
• Sundays (Tupelo Press, 2020)
• Poverty Creek Journal (Tupelo Press, 2014)
• John in the Company of Poets: The Gospel and Literary Imagination (Baylor, 2011)
• A Door Ajar: Contemporary Writers and Emily Dickinson (Oxford Univ. Press, 2006)
• Jorie Graham: Essays on the Poetry, ed. (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2005)
• Regions of Unlikeness: Explaining Contemporary Poetry (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1999)
• Discovering Ourselves in Whitman (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1989)

Journal Articles

• “Dickinson, Calvin, and the Drama of Perception,” Religion and Literature, 46.1 (Spring 2014)
• “A Private Bible,” Raritan, 34 (Summer 2014)
• “In Exile from our Words,” on Stanley Cavell’s Little Did I Know, Books & Culture (2014)