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Audrey Walton recognized with John Charles Polanyi Prize in Literature

Audrey Walton has received the John Charles Polanyi Prize in Literature for her scholarship on sacred language, literary cultures, vernacularity and world religions, with particular focus on the early medieval period in England.

An assistant professor of English who is also at the Centre for Medieval Studies, Walton received the prize for her research showing that medieval England produced a large body of literature in the vernacular as opposed to Latin.

鈥淲e are all immensely proud of Audrey,鈥 said Professor Paul Stevens, chair of the department of English. 鈥淎udrey joins five other members of the department in winning this prestigious award 鈥 Angela Esterhammer, Andrea Most, Katie Larson, Andrea Charise and most recently Danny Wright. It鈥檚 an outstanding group, remarkable for the rigour, originality and diversity of their research. Audrey鈥檚 work on the complex constitution of Anglo-Saxon textual culture is a revelation.鈥

The award is named after John Polanyi, of chemistry and joint winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. At a reception to honour the winners, Polanyi talked about the significance of Walton鈥檚 research on the vernacular. 

鈥淲ith a new language came a new outlook,鈥 Polanyi said. 鈥淭hey spoke to God as if he were one of them.鈥

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