Kyle R. Garton is an Associate Professor of American Literature at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. He is the author of Enlightened Individualism: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from the Beats to the Present (OSUP, 2019), and his scholarly articles have appeared or are forthcoming in many venues, including Religion & Literature, Religion and the Arts, and Literature, Interpretation, Theory. His speculative fiction has appeared in Book XI and Parabola, and his nonfiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, PopMatters, and Religion Dispatches. The views expressed here are his own and do not reflect those of his employer.
