LIONEL BASNEY AWARD RECIPIENTS

2019

Sharon Kim, "The Brokenness of Caesar's Things: On the Unfinished Religious Novel by Zelda Fitzgerald" 
Christianity & Literature, Volume 68, No. 2

2018

Alexander J.B. Hampton “Post-Secular Literature and the New Nature Writing”
Christianity & Literature, Volume 67, No. 3

2017

Brigitte N. McCray
“‘Good landscapes be but lies’: W. H. Auden, the Second World War, and Haunted Places”
Christianity & Literature, Volume 66, No. 2

2016

Joshua Mabie
“The Field is Ripe: Christian Literary Scholarship, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, and Environmentalism"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 65, No. 3 

2015

Emily Griesinger
“Religious Belief in a Secular Age: Literary Modernism and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 64, No. 4 

2014
Brian Conniff
“Don DeLillo’s Ignatian Moment: Religious Longing and Theological Encounter in Falling Man"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 63, No. 1

2013
Christopher Denny

"Revisiting Dante's Promised End: Eschatological Implications for Peguy's Jeanne d'Arc Mysteries"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 62, No. 4

2012

Cynthia Wallace

"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Redemption"

Christianity & Literature, Volume 61, No. 3

2009

James Matthew Wilson

“The Realism of Helen Pinkerton”

Christianity & Literature, Volume 58, No. 4 

2008

Monica Brzezinski Potkay

"The Parable of the Sower and Obscurity in the Prologue to Marie de France's Lais"

Christianity & Literature, Volume 57, No. 3

2007

James Matthew Wilson

"Representing the Limits of Judgment: Yvor Winters, Emily Dickinson, and Religious Experience"

Christianity & Literature, Volume 56, No. 3 


Finalist

Denise T. Askin

"Carnival in the ‘Temple':
Flannery O'Connor's Dialogic Parable of Artistic Vocation"

Christianity & Literature, Volume 56, No. 4

2006 

Scott McLaren

“Saving the Monsters? Images of Redemption in the Gothic Tales of George MacDonald"

Christianity & Literature, Volume 55, No. 2

2005

Phillip J. Donnelly

“Enthusiastic Poetry and Rationalized Christianity: The Poetic Theory of John Dennis”
Christianity & Literature, Volume 54, No. 2

2004

Jens Zimmermann

"Quo Vadis?: Literary Theory beyond Postmodernism"

Christianity & Literature, Volume 53, No. 4

2003

Nathan Bracher

"The Cold-War Christian Humanism of Francois Mauriac"

Christianity & Literature, Volume 52, No. 3

2002

Sanford Schwartz

"Paradise Reframed: Lewis, Bergson, and Changing Times on Perelandra"

Christianity & Literature, Volume 51, No. 4

2001

Emily Griesinger

"Why Baby Suggs, Holy, Quit Preaching the Word: Redemption and Holiness in Toni Morrison’s Beloved"

Christianity & Literature, Volume 50, No. 4 

2000

Janet L. Larson

"Josephine Butler’s Catharine of Siena: Writing (Auto)Biography as a Feminist Spiritual Practice"

Christianity & Literature, Volume 48, No. 4 
and

"Praying Bodies, Spectacular Martyrs, and the Virile Sisterhood: 'Salutary and Useful Confusions' in Josephine Butler’s Catherine of Siena"

Christianity & Literature, Volume 49, No. 1