Ken is a Professor of English at Campbell University. He is the editor of and a contributor to Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volumes I, II and III (2008, 2011, 2015, Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Other works of note include Jane Austen’s Emma: A Close Reading Companion (Volumes I and II) and contributions to the anthologies Perceptions of Religious Faith in the Work of Graham Greene (2001, Peter Lang), The Deep End of South Park: Critical Essays on Television’s Shocking Cartoon Series (2009, McFarland), and The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions (2019, Routledge). He also contributed the entry on “Christian Fiction” in Books and Beyond: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of  New American Reading.  Journal articles include “Searching for the Fairy Child: A Psychoanalytic Study of Babbitt” for Mid-West Quarterly and “‘Emma Could Not Resist’: Complicity and the Christian Reader” for Persuasions.