Trenton B. Olsen joined the English Department faculty in 2014. He is the editor of The Complete Personal Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson: Expanded Second Edition—the first complete edition of Stevenson’s essays ever published—and president of the Stevenson Society of America (est. 1915), which owns and operates the Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage Museum in Saranac Lake, New York.
His interests include nineteenth-century British literature, creative nonfiction, public humanities, service learning, and undergraduate research. He teaches English composition, literary studies, and nonfiction.
He is the author of Wordsworth and Evolution in Victorian Literature: Entangled Influence (Routledge, 2019). His work has been recognized with awards from the Idaho Humanities Council, the American Library Association’s Choice, and the international George Eliot Fellowship. He earned his BA at Utah State University, where he was named the university’s top undergraduate researcher, and his PhD in English Literature at the University of Minnesota.
For more on Professor Olsen’s writing, see his author website. To learn more about the Stevenson Cottage Museum, an ongoing service learning project that has involved many BYU-Idaho students, visit their website or follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.