The Owen Barfield Award for Excellence

The Award for Excellence was established in 2010 by the Literary Estate as an annual recognition of outstanding contributions to furthering the understanding of Barfield’s work. The recipients are:

• 2019 – Rodica Albu
  Professor Emeritus of English Language and Linguistics,
  Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, ROMANIA
• 2018 – Bruce G. Charlton
  Reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry, School of Psychology,
  Newcastle University, UK
• 2017 – Martin Ovens
  Tutor in Philosophy & Religion, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK
• 2016 – Jefferey H. Taylor
  Professor of English, Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA
• 2015 – David Lavery
  Professor of English, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
• 2014 – Marjorie L. Mead
  Associate Director, Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, IL USA
• 2013 – Julie J. Nichols
  Associate Professor of English, Utah Valley University, UT USA
• 2012 – Elmar Schenkel
  Professor of English, University of Leipzig, GERMANY
• 2011 – William Johnson
  Professor of English Emeritus, Lewis-Clark State College, ID USA
• 2010 – Fanfan Chen
  Professor of English, National Dong Hwa University, TAIWAN