Friday, March 29, 2024

Indiana Wesleyan University awards Aldersgate Prize

Dr. Christina Bieber Lake, the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton College, is the recipient of the 2014 Aldersgate Prize for her book, Prophets of the Posthuman: American Literature, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood.

Motivated by the ethos of its Christian liberal learning community, Indiana Wesleyan University’s John Wesley Honors College awards the Aldersgate Prize annually to celebrate the outstanding achievement of an author whose scholarly inquiry “challenges reductionistic trends in academia by yielding a broad, integrative analysis of life’s complexities and by shedding fresh light on ultimate questions that enliven historic Christian conceptions of human flourishing.”

After reviewing more than 70 nominations for this year’s prize, the selection committee was most impressed with Bieber Lake’s “wide-ranging and prophetic interrogation of the assumptions and aspirations that animate our biotechnological age.”

Bieber Lake will accept the Aldersgate Prize and its monetary award of $3,500 at the 2015 Celebration of Scholarship Luncheon, April 17 at Indiana Wesleyan University, where she will offer the keynote address.

Prophets of the Posthuman: American Literature, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood is published by University of Notre Dame Press.

 

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