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Lori Branch
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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).

Project Directors for the Religion, Secularism, and the Novel: NEH Summer Seminar 2019 are Lori Branch and Mark Knight