Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL)

Each year the department invites noted scholars and writers in the field to give lectures or readings on campus. Such visits enrich the curriculum and provide models of how Christian scholars and writers have integrated their faith into their professional work. Recent visitors have included Jeanne Murray Walker,Carl Dennis, Robert Siegel, Mary Brown and Susannah Childress, among others. Information on the most recent conference is posted below.

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Co-sponsored by The English Department and the Conference on Christianity and Literature

The 2009 regional meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, held just west of Chicago at Wheaton College, will explore a wide variety of approaches to the intersections between Christianity, literature, and the city. This three-day conference will include keynote addresses by Andrew Delbanco and Anne Winters, traditional panels, at least two undergraduate student panels with faculty moderators, poetry readings, art exhibitions, and associated excursions into Chicago. Proposals for panels, roundtables, or individual twenty-minute presentations are invited on the following or related topics:

• City/Suburb/Exurb
• The _______ City: The Classical City, The Biblical City, The Secular City, The Global City, The Apocalyptic City, The Visual City
• Pilgrimage and the City
• Religion in Literature of Chicago
• The City in Christian History
• Urban Utopias/Dystopias
• Stereotypes of the City
• Urbanization and (Im)migration
• 9/11
• Pedagogy of the City and Literature

Send 250-word abstracts to Tiffany Eberle Kriner, English Department, Wheaton College, 501 College Ave., Wheaton, IL 60187 or tiffany.e.kriner@wheaton.edu. The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to June 15, 2009.

The 2009 Conference schedule will be available in early August. For additional information please contact Marie Friesema, English Academic Coordinator at 630-752-5051 or at Marie.E.Friesema@wheaton.edu.