Kevin Gary spent ten years as a high school teacher before becoming a college professor. As a teacher of future teachers, he knows many of the professional challenges and pitfalls educators face, and he mines the works of classical and contemporary thinkers for wisdom that applies today.

His book Why Boredom Matters (Cambridge, 2022) takes on one of the biggest adversaries of learning and human flourishing, whether in the classroom or outside of it. In addition to his work at Valparaiso University, where he has taught classes in education, theology, the freshman core program, and in Christ College-The Honors College-, Kevin is a founding member of NAAPE, the North American Association for Philosophy of Education. He has been a fellow at the Yale for Faith and Culture and is a regular participant at the Jubilee Conference at Oxford University. He has a Ph.D. in cultural and educational policy studies from Loyola University Chicago, as well as an M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction from Loyola and an M.A. in systematic theology from the University of Notre Dame. He enjoys speaking to groups of all ages and stages of life.