Kent C. Ryden

Kent Ryden teaches in the American and New England studies program at the University of Southern Maine. He received the American Studies Association’s Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for his dissertation, a revised version of which became his first book, Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place (Iowa, 1993); he is also the author of Landscape with Figures: Nature and Culture in New England (Iowa, 2001).