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 (forthcoming from IVP Academic) with Dr Samuel Fornecker.
Dr. Keane took a Ph.D. in the School of 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. He studied literature and Bible (B.A.) at Johnson University in Knoxville, TN and took an M.A. in English at Georgia Southern University, writing a thesis on Alexander Pope’s commentary on the Iliad (supervised by Dr Julia Griffin).
He edited the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition (IVP Academic, 2021) with Samuel L. Bray (University of Notre Dame). Keane and Bray also co-authored How to Use the Book of Common Prayer (IVP, forthcoming 2023), a guide for new users unfamiliar with the Anglican tradition. His academic work has been published in Notes & Queries, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, and Anglican Theological Review.
He serves on the Liturgical Commission and the Commission on Ministry for the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia. From 2012 to 2018 Dr Keane 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).
Dr. Keane has been known to lisp in numbers, when the numbers come. His verse can be read in Lighten Up, The Chained Muse, Better Than Starbucks, Earth & Altar, and in The Slumbering Host (edited by Daniel Rattelle and Clinton Collister, and published by Little Gidding Press, 2019). As one might expect from a bespectacled man wont to wear bowties, he enjoys old books and baroque music, coffee and whiskey, and long rambles (both literal and figurative).
You may find more of his work and miscellaneous musings at drewkeane.com.