Lionel Basney Award
The Lionel Basney Award is given annually to the article deemed by the CCL Publications Committee to be the most outstanding article of the year in Christianity and Literature. The award, which was first presented in 2000, commemorates both the scholarly career and the personal character of a teacher, scholar, poet, and essayist who, during nearly two decades of affiliation with Calvin College, was deeply committed to CCL and all that it seeks to promote.
Recent Recipients of the Lionel Basney Award
2009
James Matthew Wilson
“The Realism of Helen Pinkerton”
Volume 58, No. 4
2008
Monica Brzezinski Potkay
"The Parable of the Sower and Obscurity in the Prologue to Marie de France's Lais"
Volume 57, No. 3
2007
James Matthew Wilson
"Representing the Limits of Judgment: Yvor Winters, Emily Dickinson, and Religious Experience"
Volume 56, No. 3
Finalist
Denise T. Askin
"Carnival in the ‘Temple':
Flannery O'Connor's Dialogic Parable of Artistic Vocation"
Volume 56, No. 4
2006
Scott McLaren
“Saving the Monsters? Images of Redemption in the Gothic Tales of George MacDonald"
Volume 55, No. 2
2005
Phillip J. Donnelly
“Enthusiastic Poetry and Rationalized Christianity: The Poetic Theory of John Dennis” Volume 54, No. 2
2004
Jens Zimmermann
Quo Vadis?: Literary Theory beyond Postmodernism
Volume 53, No. 4
2003
Nathan Bracher
"The Cold-War Christian Humanism of Francois Mauriac"
Volume 52, No. 3
2002
Sanford Schwartz
"Paradise Reframed: Lewis, Bergson, and Changing Times on Perelandra"
Volume 51, No. 4
2001
Emily Griesinger
"Why Baby Suggs, Holy, Quit Preaching the Word: Redemption and Holiness in Toni Morrison’s Beloved"
Volume 50, No. 4
2000
Janet L. Larson
"Josephine Butler’s Catharine of Siena: Writing (Auto)Biography as a Feminist Spiritual Practice"
Volume 48, No. 4
and
"Praying Bodies, Spectacular Martyrs, and the Virile Sisterhood: “Salutary and Useful Confusions” in Josephine Butler’s Catherine of Siena"
Volume 49, No. 1