MLA 2009
At the December 2009 Modern Language Association convention in Philadelphia, CCL sponsored a reading by Dana Gioia, a seminar-style session on Geoffrey Hill, and a luncheon in which annual awards were announced.
Faith and Fable in the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill
Roundtable discussion, Emily Merriman, San Francisco State University, presiding
Participants included
• 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
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 2009 awards are below.
Lifetime achievement
Geoffrey Hill
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Dana Gioia
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Book of the Year
James Kearney
The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England
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Lionel Basney Award
James Matthew Wilson
“The Realism of Helen Pinkerton,” Volume 58.4
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