2023
Angelica Duran
“Milton’s Early Modern English Protestant Paradise Lost in a Modern Mexican Christmastide Civic Drama.” 
Christianity & Literature, Volume 72, No. 4

2022
Haein Park
“Sentimentalism, Realism, and Secularity in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth” 
Christianity & Literature, Volume 71, No.

2021
Joshua King
“Revelatory Beasts: Christina Rossetti on the Apocalypse and Creation’s Worship”
Christianity & Literature, Volume 70, No. 4 

2020
Alexander Burdge
“Physics as Spiritual Exercise: T. S. Eliot and Natural Contemplation”
Christianity & Literature, Volume 69, No. 4

2019
Sharon Kim
"The Brokenness of Caesar's Things: On the Unfinished Religious Novel by Zelda Fitzgerald"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 68, No. 2

2018
Alexander J.B. Hampton
“Post-Secular Literature and the New Nature Writing”
Christianity & Literature, Volume 67, No. 3

2017
Brigitte N. McCray
“‘Good landscapes be but lies’: W. H. Auden, the Second World War, and Haunted Places”
Christianity & Literature, Volume 66, No. 2

2016
Joshua Mabie
“The Field is Ripe: Christian Literary Scholarship, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, and Environmentalism"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 65, No. 3

2015
Emily Griesinger
“Religious Belief in a Secular Age: Literary Modernism and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 64, No. 4

2014
Brian Conniff
“Don DeLillo’s Ignatian Moment: Religious Longing and Theological Encounter in Falling Man"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 63, No. 1

2013
Christopher Denny
"Revisiting Dante's Promised End: Eschatological Implications for Peguy's Jeanne d'Arc Mysteries"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 62, No. 4

2012
Cynthia Wallace
"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Redemption"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 61, No. 3

2009
James Matthew Wilson
“The Realism of Helen Pinkerton”
Christianity & Literature, Volume 58, No. 4

2008
Monica Brzezinski Potkay
"The Parable of the Sower and Obscurity in the Prologue to Marie de France's Lais"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 57, No. 3

2007
James Matthew Wilson
"Representing the Limits of Judgment: Yvor Winters, Emily Dickinson, and Religious Experience"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 56, No. 3

Finalist
Denise T. Askin
"Carnival in the ‘Temple': Flannery O'Connor's Dialogic Parable of Artistic Vocation"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 56, No. 4

2006
Scott McLaren
“Saving the Monsters? Images of Redemption in the Gothic Tales of George MacDonald"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 55, No. 2

2005
Phillip J. Donnelly
“Enthusiastic Poetry and Rationalized Christianity: The Poetic Theory of John Dennis”
Christianity & Literature, Volume 54, No. 2

2004
Jens Zimmermann
"Quo Vadis?: Literary Theory beyond Postmodernism"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 53, No. 4

2003
Nathan Bracher
"The Cold-War Christian Humanism of Francois Mauriac"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 52, No. 3

2002
Sanford Schwartz
"Paradise Reframed: Lewis, Bergson, and Changing Times on Perelandra"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 51, No. 4

2001
Emily Griesinger
"Why Baby Suggs, Holy, Quit Preaching the Word: Redemption and Holiness in Toni Morrison’s Beloved"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 50, No. 4

2000
Janet L. Larson
"Josephine Butler’s Catharine of Siena: Writing (Auto)Biography as a Feminist Spiritual Practice"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 48, No. 4
and
"Praying Bodies, Spectacular Martyrs, and the Virile Sisterhood: 'Salutary and Useful Confusions' in Josephine Butler’s Catherine of Siena"
Christianity & Literature, Volume 49, No. 1