Modern Language Association
The Conference on Christianity is allied with the Modern Language Association (www.mla.org) and organizes sessions each year at the MLA Annual Convention. The CCL also presents awards for lifetime achievement, book of the year, and the Lionel Basney Award for the year's best article in Christianity and Literature during the MLA Convention.
CCL Sessions at MLA 2009
December 27-30, 2009
Philadelphia, PA
Invitation to Luncheon
Monday, December 29, Noon
Capital Grille
1338 Chestnut St.
Lifetime achievement awards will be presented to Dana Gioia (in person) and to Geoffrey Hill (in absentia). Other CCL awards will also be announced at the luncheon. To reserve a place, send a check payable to CCL for $40 per person to Jim Wildeman, Department of English, Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, GA, 30750-9901. Reservations should be made by Dec. 15, 2009.
Other CCL sessions at the MLA conference:
Monday, Dec. 28, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.
"A Reading by Dana Gioia,"
Paul Contino presiding
Wednesday, Dec. 30, 1:45 to 3 p.m.
"Faith and Fable in the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill,"
Roundtable discussion, Emily Merriman presiding
This session will be a seminar, with participants discussing previously written papers. Abstracts will be available for visitors.
Session Chair: Emily Merriman, San Francisco State University
Participants include
• Kenneth Haynes, Brown University, respondent
• Sheridan Burnside, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Paul J. Contino, Pepperdine University
• Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec, University of Caen
• David Mahan, Rivendell Institute, Yale University
• Alex Shakespeare, Boston College
• David Williams, Hertford, Oxford University
MLA 2008
MLA 2005
Questions to Tammy Ditmore (tammy.ditmore@pepperdine.edu)