Robert Van Dellen

Robert 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 (BobTalks on Literature) for the Elliott Museum in Stuart, Florida, where Bob and his wife winter, as well as many libraries, art centers, book clubs, and other venues.

Since 2016, he has presented over thirty-five Talks on Literature. These are converted into a two-volume series collection of essays, titled Reflections on Literature: Exploring Meanings and Messages; Volume I, The Modern Novel; Vol. II, Poetry and Drama. His most recent book is Orwell's Alert! Power and the Politics of Control in George Orwell's Novels (10/26, Parkhurst Brothers Publishers). The book maintains that Orwell matters today as much as he did in the 1930s and 40s and that the current political threats to democracy are warnings Orwell describes. The books are available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and local book stores. For more information about his books and Talks, see his website and to order signed copies of his books, go to his e-mail account.