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:

2023
Landon B. Loftin
Teacher, Gravitas: A Global Extension of the Stony Brook School
USA
Max Leyf Treinen
Rolfer & Professor of Philosophy
Alaska, USA
2022
Susanna Clarke
Author
Cambridge, England
2021
Leslie A. Taylor
Researcher and Writer
Thornton, Colorado, USA
2020
Mark Vernon
Psychotherapist and Writer
London, UK
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