MLA 2008
At the 2008 Modern Language Association convention in San Francisco, CCL sponsored a reading by Marilynne Robinson, a seminar-style session, and a luncheon in which annual awards were announced.
Grace and Grand Laughter: The Christian Vision of Marilynne Robinson
Session Chair: Scott LaMascus, Oklahoma Christian University
The seminar-style session included 5-minute excerpts from completed papers by roundtable participants. Scheduled to participate were June Hobbs, Gardner-Webb University; Mike Vander Weele, Trinity University; Jeanine Varner, Abilene Christian University; Heidi Nobles, University of South Carolina; Ross Melanson, Moose Jaw Museum, Saskatchewan. Also scheduled were respondent Laura Tanner, Boston College; and Workshop Participants Nancy Brands, St. Michael's College; Lisa Siefker Bailey, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.; Matt Walters, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Elizabeth Hedrick, St. Louis University.
For more information about the session, contact Scott LaMascus, scott.lamascus@oc.edu, or by mail at: Professor of English, Oklahoma Christian University, Box 11000, Oklahoma City, OK 73136.
Reading by Marilynne Robinson
The Monday morning reading was well-attended by CCL members and many non-members. Ms. Robinson read from The Death of Adam, Gilead, and Home. A question-and-answer session followed the reading.
CCL Luncheon
Photos from luncheon
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 2008 awards are below.
Lifetime achievement
Marilynne Robinson
Text of Citation
Book of the Year
Jessica Brantley
Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance
in Late Medieval England
Text of the Citation
Lionel Basney Award
Monica Brzezinski Potkay
"The Parable of the Sower and Obscurity in the Prologue to Marie de France's Lais"
Volume 57, No. 3
Text of the Citation
Questions to Tammy Ditmore (tammy.ditmore@pepperdine.edu)