MLA 2007
At the 2007 MLA convention in Chicago, CCL sponsored two well-received and well-attended sessions and a luncheon in which annual awards were announced.
Shakespeare and Faith: Roman, English, or None?
The Shakespeare session was chaired by John D. Cox of Hope University, and papers were delivered by Alison Shell, Durham University; Debora Shuger, UCLA; and Richard Strier, University of Chicago.
Christian Scholarship and the Turn to Religion in Literary Studies
Susan M. Felch of Calvin University, chaired this session, which was designed as a seminar, with chosen papers circulated in advance, and participants contributing to a seminar-style discussion at the convention. Scheduled to participate were Kevin Hart, University of Virginia; William Brissett, University of Virginia; Jim Caufield, UCLA; Christopher Cobb, Saint Mary's College, IN; Liam Corley, CalState Polytechnic, Pomona; Karen Dielman, independent scholar; Mitch M. Harris, Gustavus Adolphus College; Norman W. Jones, Ohio State University; Sharon Kim, Judson College; Tiffany Kriner, Wheaton College; Kathryn Ludwig, Purdue University; Yolanda Pierce, University of Kentucky; Caleb D. Spencer, University of Illinois; and James Matthew Wilson, University of Notre Dame.
CCL Awards for 2007
Each year the Conference on Christianity and Literature recognizes literary achievement in the form of awards presented for lifetime achievement, best book in the field, and the Lionel Basney Award for best article published in Christianity and Literature. The winners of the 2007 awards are:
Lifetime achievement:
Frederick Buechner
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Book of the Year, Scholarly Work
Lori Branch, Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism
from Free Prayer to Wordsworth
Honorable Mention
Christine Baur, Dante's Hermeneutics of Salvation:
Passages to Freedom in the Divine Comedy
Book of the Year, Belles Lettres
Tania Runyan, Delicious Air
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Lionel Basney Award
James Matthew Wilson, "Representing the Limits of Judgment:
Yvor Winters, Emily Dickinson, and Religious Experience"
Finalist
Denise T. Askin
"Carnival in the ‘Temple':
Flannery O'Connor's Dialogic Parable of Artistic Vocation"
Volume 56, No. 4
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Questions to Tammy Ditmore (tammy.ditmore@pepperdine.edu)