In 1982, the Clyde S. Kilby Research Grant was established by Wheaton College's class of 1939 in honor of their former professor and faculty class sponsor. This endowed award is presented annually by the Steering Committee of the Marion E. Wade Center to a scholar engaged in a publishable project related to one of the seven Wade authors. The intention of the award is both to recognize scholarly contributions and also to assist the work of those who use the resources of the Wade Center.
There is no application process for the Kilby Research Grant. Researchers become eligible by having visited and used the research materials of the Wade Center. Further information on this award may be obtained by researchers once they are at the Wade.
Kilby Research Grant Recipients
| Year |
Recipient |
Study |
| 2006 |
Michael Ward |
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Oxford UP, 2008) |
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Simon Blaxland-de Lange |
Owen Barfield: Romanticism Comes of Age (Temple Lodge, 2006) |
| 2005 |
Kerry Dearborn |
The Baptized Imagination: The Theology of George MacDonald (Ashgate Publishing, 2007) |
| 2004 |
Joel Heck |
Irrigating Deserts: C.S. Lewis on Education (Concordia Publishing House, 2005) |
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Laura K. Simmons |
Creed without Chaos: Exploring Theology in the Writings of Dorothy L. Sayers (Baker Academic, 2005) |
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Wayne Martindale |
Beyond the Shadowlands: C.S. Lewis on Heaven and Hell (Crossway Books, 2005) |
| 2003 |
K. James Gilchrist |
A Morning After: C.S. Lewis and WWI (Peter Lang, 2005) |
| 2002 |
Peter Schakel |
Imagination and the Arts in C.S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds (University of Missouri Press, 2002) |
| 2001 |
Crystal Downing |
Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) |
| 2000 |
David Downing |
The Most Reluctant Convert: C.S. Lewis's Journey to Faith (InterVarsity Press, 2002) |
| 1999 |
Michael Travers |
Forthcoming book to be titled A Severe Delight: Exile and Longing in C.S. Lewis (co-written with Bruce Edwards) |
| 1998 |
No award given |
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| 1997 |
Diana Pavlac Glyer |
The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community (Kent State University Press, 2006) |
| 1996 |
John Peterson |
Father Brown and the Church of Rome (Ignatius Press, 1996) |
| 1995 |
Don King |
C.S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse (Kent State University Press, 2001) |
| 1994 |
Colin Duriez |
The Inklings Handbook (Chalice Press, 2001) |
| 1993 |
Mary Ellen Ashcroft |
Forthcoming book entitled “The Ideal of Work in the Life and Writings of Dorothy L. Sayers ” |
| 1992 |
Stephen Thorson |
Forthcoming book entitled “Joy and Poetic Imagination: C.S. Lewis’s Dispute with Owen Barfield” |
| 1990 |
Roma King, Jr. |
The Pattern in the Web: The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams (Kent State University Press, 1990) |
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Janine Goffar |
C.S. Lewis Index: Rumours from the Sculptor's Shop (La Sierra University Press, 1995) |
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Wayne Hammond |
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography (St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1992) |
| 1989 |
Rolland Hein |
George MacDonald: Victorian Mythmaker (Star Song Publishing Group, 1993) |
| 1988 |
Aidan Mackey |
Collected Poetry, Part I (Ignatius Press, 1994) |
| 1987 |
Paul Ford |
Forthcoming book on C.S. Lewis |
| 1986 |
Barbara Reynolds |
The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L. Sayers' Encounter with Dante (Kent State University Press, 1989) |
| 1985 |
Lionel Adey |
C.S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer, and Mentor (Eerdmans, 1998) |
| 1984 |
Alzina Stone Dale |
Love All and Busman's Honeymoon, ed. (Kent State University Press, 1984) |
| 1983 |
H. William Griffin |
Clive Staples Lewis: A Dramatic Life (Harper and Row, 1986) |
| 1982 |
George Sayer |
Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times (Harper and Row, 1988) |
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Lyle W. Dorsett |
And God Came In: The Extraordinary Story of Joy Davidman, Her Life and Marriage to C.S. Lewis (Macmillan, 1983) |
