Kevin Hart

Distinguished Professor Kevin Hart

  • Post Nominals: FAHA
  • Fellow Type: Corresponding Fellow
  • Elected to the Academy: 1994

Biography

Kevin Hart is Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor in the School of Divinity at Duke University. He holds a secondary appointment in the Department of English. His most recent books include *Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation* (Chicago UP, 2023), which consists of his Gifford Lectures at Glasgow University, *Contemplation: The Movements of the Soul* (Columbia UP, 2024), *Dark-Land: Memoir of a Secret Childhood* (Paul Dry Books, 2024) and *The Bible and Western Christian Literature*, vol. 5 (T. and T. Clark, 2024), His poems are mostly collected in *Wild Track: New and Selected Poems* (Notre Dame UP, 2015) and *Barefoot* (Notre Dame UP, 2018).

Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.