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FILM ‘Prince Caspian’: another Narnia blockbuster?
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THE NORTHEAST
Harvard
professor and psychiatrist Armand Nicholi Jr. is the author of The Question
of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning
of Life (Free Press cloth 2002, paper 2003). For more than 25 years, he
has taught a seminar examining the question of God's existence through Lewis'
and Freud's lives and writings. In fall 2004, PBS aired a program
based on Nicholi's seminar. Contact amnicholi@aol.com.
Peter
J. Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College who specializes
in Lewis and has written frequently about him. Kreeft's books include C.S.
Lewis for the Third Millennium (Ignatius Press, 1994). Contact 617-552-3871,
peter.kreeft@bc.edu.
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THE EAST
David
C. Downing is the R.W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College
in Lancaster County, Pa., and the author of four books on C.S. Lewis, including
Into the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis & the Narnia Chronicles (Jossey Bass,
2005) and Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C.S. Lewis (Intervarsity
Press, 2005). Contact DCDown2@aol.com or
through Kelly Hughes, 312-280-8126, kelly@dechanthughes.com.
The New York C.S.
Lewis Society was founded in 1969 and is the world's oldest society for
the appreciation and discussion of Lewis. Contact secretary Clara Sarrocco,
subscribe@nycslsociety.com.
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THE SOUTHEAST
Wesley
A. Kort is a religion professor at Duke University in Durham, N.C., who
wrote C.S. Lewis: Then and Now (Oxford University Press, 2001). Contact
919-660-3519, wkort@duke.edu.
David Barratt, who lectures in the College for Seniors, University of North
Carolina, Asheville, is the author of C.S. Lewis and His World (Eerdmans,
1987), which is to be reissued in a revised version before the Disney film releases.
Contact dandjbarratt@netscape.net.
Don King
is a professor of English at Montreat College in Montreat, N.C., who specializes
in Lewis. He is the author of C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic
Impulse (Kent State University Press, 2001). King edits the Christian Scholar's
Review. Contact 1-828-669-8011 ext. 3819, dking@montreat.edu.
Dabney Adams Hart, an associate professor emeritus of English at Georgia
State University in Atlanta, is an expert on The Chronicles of Narnia.
She was the first person to write a doctoral dissertation (in 1959) on the work
of Lewis, and was a friend of Lewis from 1956 until his death in 1963. Hart
wrote Through the Open Door: A New Look at C.S. Lewis (University of
Alabama Press, 1984). Contact Dabneyhart@cs.com.
The C.
S. Lewis Institute in Annandale, Va., was founded in 1976.
Will Vaus of
Monterey, Va., is the author of Mere Theology: A Guide to the Thought of
C.S. Lewis (InterVarsity Press, 2004). He will lead a Narnia
retreat Oct. 21-25, 2005. Vaus is the president of Will Vaus Ministries.
Contact will@willvaus.com.
Devin Brown, an English professor at Asbury College, is the author of
Inside Narnia: A Guide to Exploring The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
(Baker Books). He has been writing, teaching, and lecturing on C. S. Lewis
for more than 10 years. His book provides a literary analysis of The Lion,
the Witch and the Wardrobe. Brown lives in Lexington, Ky. Contact 859-858-3411,
devin.brown@asbury.edu or Aaron
Carriere at 616-676-9185, acarriere@bakerbooks.com.
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THE SOUTH
Lyle Dorsett is Billy Graham Professor of Evangelism at Beeson Divinity
School, Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., and the foremost scholar on Lewis'
wife, Joy Davidman. Dorsett is author of A Love Observed: Joy Davidman's
Life and Marriage to C.S. Lewis (Harold Shaw Publishers, 1998) and And
God Came In: The Extraordinary Story of Joy Davidman, Her Life and Marriage
to C.S. Lewis (Macmillan, 1983). Dorsett edited The Essential C.S. Lewis
(Simon & Schuster, 1996) and co-edited C.S. Lewis, Letters to Children
(Simon & Schuster, 1998). Contact lwdorset@samford.edu.
The Memphis (Tenn.)
C.S. Lewis Society was formed in 1996.
The Chattanooga
(Tenn.) C.S. Lewis Society has a web site.
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THE MIDWEST
Wayne
Martindale, an English professor at Wheaton College, is author of Beyond
the Shadowlands: C.S. Lewis on Heaven and Hell (Crossway, 2005) and co-editor
of The Quotable Lewis (Tyndale House, 1990). Contact 630-752-5787,
Wayne.Martindale@wheaton.edu.
Jerry
Root, associate professor of Christian education at Wheaton College in Wheaton,
Ill., co-edited The Quotable C.S. Lewis (Tyndale House, 1990). Root's
master's and doctoral dissertations were on Lewis, on whom he's taught courses
for 25 years. Contact 630-752-5912, Jerry.Root@wheaton.edu.
Alan
Jacobs is an English professor at Wheaton College and author of The Narnian:
the Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis (HarperCollins, 2005). Contact 630-752-5784,
Alan.Jacobs@wheaton.edu.
Marvin
D. Hinten is an English professor at Friends University in Wichita, Kan.,
and the author of The Keys to the Chronicles: Unlocking the Symbols of C.S.
Lewis's Narnia (Broadman & Holman, October 2005). Contact 316-295-5559,
hintenm@friends.edu.
Jerry L. Walls is a philosophy of religion professor at Asbury Theological
Seminary, Kentucky Campus, Wilmore, Ky., and co-editor of The Chronicles
of Narnia and Philosophy (Open Court Press) and co-author of C.S. Lewis
& Francis Schaeffer: Lessons for a New Century From the Most Influential
Apologists (InterVarsity Press, 1998). Contact 859-858-2116, jerry_walls@asburyseminary.edu.
Gilbert
C. Meilaender is the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Professor of Christian
Ethics at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Ind. His books include The
Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C.S. Lewis (Eerdmans,
1998). Contact gilbert.meilaender@valpo.edu.
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THE SOUTHWEST
Doris T. Myers is professor emeritus of English at the University of
Northern Colorado, Greeley, and the author of Bareface: A Guide to C.S. Lewis's
Last Novel (University of Missouri Press, 2004) and C.S. Lewis in Context
(Kent State University Press, 1998). Contact doristmyers@hotmail.com.
Joe R. Christopher is professor emeritus of English at Tarleton State
University in Stephenville, Texas, and the author of C.S. Lewis (Twayne
Publishers, 1987) and co-author of C. S. Lewis: An Annotated Checklist of
Writings About Him and His Works (Kent State University Press, 1974). Contact
254-968-1905 (usually Thursday-Saturday), jchristopher@tarleton.edu.
Sara McLaughlin, a lecturer in rhetoric and composition at Texas Tech
University in Lubbock, is the author of Meeting God in the Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe: Classic Themes in C.S. Lewis's Book (Pleasant Word, July
2005). Contact sara.mclaughlin@ttu.edu.
The Central
Texas C.S. Lewis Society meets monthly in Cedar Park, Texas. Contact Margaret
Humphreys, centraltexascslsociety@yahoo.com.
The C.S.
Lewis & Inklings Society is based at Oklahoma City University.
Salwa Khoddam, a professor of English at Oklahoma City University, is
a past president and founder of the C.S.
Lewis & Inklings Society. She has published several articles about The
Chronicles of Narnia and is working on a book about Lewis' use, in his fiction,
of verbal images that point to the divine. Contact skhoddam@cox.net.
Robert
Millet, a professor of ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, co-edited C.S. Lewis, The Man and His Message: A Latter-Day
Saint Perspective (Bookcraft, 1999). Millet says Lewis is one of the most
admired, respected and quoted Christian writers in Latter-day Saint literature,
and Lewis' prose, fiction and ability to teach difficult Christian doctrines
and principles are without parallel. Contact 801-422-7042, robert_millet@byu.edu.
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THE WEST/NORTHWEST
Stan Mattson is founder and president of the C.S.
Lewis Foundation in Redlands, Calif. Contact through the web site.
John
G. West, an associate professor of political science and departmental chairman
at Seattle Pacific University, has a special interest in Lewis and co-edited
The C.S. Lewis Readers' Encyclopedia (Zondervan, 1998). Contact 206-281-2162,
jwest@spu.edu.
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