Robert Van Dellen

Bob Van Dellen earned his Ph.D. in English Literature from Indiana University and began his career as a professor at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana.

Bob taught graduate and undergraduate courses, was president of a consulting company, and served as the founding executive director of a Community Foundation. He returned to academia and concluded his career as president of a college in Michigan. He authored over ten feature-length scripts for videos, which included four with Curt Gowdy of American Sportsman fame and one with the famous Roy Rogers. He published several essays and conducted numerous seminars and workshops.

His four grown children, their spouses, and their nine grandchildren are of central importance to him and his wife. Bob has enjoyed many backpacking and wilderness canoe camping trips, as well as several journeys to Europe and elsewhere. His life-long passion for literature is exhibited by the Lectures on Literature Series for the Elliott Museum in Stuart, Florida, where Bob and his wife winter.

Since 2016, he has presented over twenty-five Talks on Literature. These are now being converted into a multi-series collection of essays, titled Reflections on Literature: Exploring Meanings and Messages. Volume I, The Modern Novel from the Roaring Twenties to the Mythic West released in July, 2023.