Project Directors for the Religion, Secularism, and the Novel: NEH Summer Seminar 2019 are Lori Branch and Mark Knight
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Lori Branch is associate professor of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Iowa. Her first book, Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth, was named 2007 Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature.
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Mark Knight is Senior Lecturer (i.e., Associate Professor) in the Department of English Literature & Creative Writing at Lancaster University. His books include Chesterton and Evil (2004), Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction (with Emma Mason, 2006), An Introduction to Religion and Literature (2009), and Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel (forthcoming 2019).