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‘Prince Caspian’: another Narnia blockbuster?

IN 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.

IN 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.

IN 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.

IN 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.

IN 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.

IN 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.

IN 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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