Curriculum vitæ

D. N. Keane (PhD St And), Lecturer of English, Georgia Southern University.

As a Lecturer in the English Department at GSU, I help students become more confident, competent users of the technologies of literacy, empowering them to create and analyze texts as tools for constructing, understanding, and improving the world and ourselves. I see my role as facilitating discovery and demystifying literacy technologies by supporting practice and critical engagement with increasingly challenging reading and writing tasks in relation to real audiences and aims.

Currently I am writing a comprehensive commentary on the Book of Common Prayer with Dr Samuel Fornecker for IVP Academic, the first to focus on the rhetoric and usability of the book. I am also a co-host of Critical Readings, a podcast of literary analysis, providing collegiate-level analysis of English literary texts at no cost and free of any advertising.

I previously authored How to Use the Book of Common Prayer (IVP 2024) and edited the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition (IVP Academic 2021) both with Samuel L Bray. My scholarship has been published in St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, The International John Bunyan Society research blog, Notes & Queries, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, and Anglican Theological Review.

My poetry can be read in Snakeskin, Spirit Fire Review, Lighten Up, Better Than Starbucks, and Earth & Altar.

I have won and been nominated for teaching and mentorship awards, building an extraordinary record of committee work and professional service. I have supervised graduate student teachers, mentored new faculty, collaborated in developing and implementing program assessment, led professional development workshops, represented my colleagues on Faculty Senate, and served as department parliamentarian. I have extensive experience in designing and teaching online courses. I developed and assessed curriculum for the First-Year Experience Program and designed online courses for the Center for Teaching and Technology. For several years I helped lead the Georgia Southern Writing Project, providing professional development and guidance for local Middle and High School teachers.

I am honored to serve on the Board of Directors of Bexley Seabury Seminary. I chair the subcommittee on policies and serve on the nominations and governance committee. I also serve on the Liturgical Commission and the Commission on Ministry for the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia.

From 2024 to Feb. 2026, I was the Managing Editor of The Anglican Way. In that role, I coordinated all the people, processes, and components involved in producing and running a quarterly periodical, website, social media presence, and annual conference on the Book of Common Prayer. I worked closely with the board of directors, writers, editors, and designers, as well as writing and editing content. From 2012 to 2018 I served on the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.

I 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. Before that I 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, where I served as research assistant to Dr Daniel Overdorf (funded by a grant from the Appalachian College Association).

A complete vita is available upon request.