Department of English
Printer-friendly versionOur graduate students excel in their research, writing, and teaching and have received due recognition for their work. Here are some of the awards our graduate students have won in the past.
Graduate Teaching Awards
Printer-friendly version2021
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William Patrick Day Essay Contest "Yes, Pain, But What Else?: Racial Liberalism And Late-Style Morrison" |
| Price Lab Andrew W. Mellon Summer Research Award in the Digital Humanities |
| Dean's Scholar |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize “The Grammar Of Kinship: Black And Native Intimacies In The 19th Century” |
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Career Exploration Fellowship Host: Penn Sustainability |
| Poetic Practice/Kelly Writers House Graduate Dissertation Fellowship |
| Phyllis Rackin Graduate Award |
| Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Graduate Fellowships for Inclusive & Equitable Teaching |
| SAS Dissertation Research Award |
| Price Lab Andrew W. Mellon Summer Research Award in the Digital Humanities |
| SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) |
| Auerbach Graduate Dissertation Fellowship |
| Leboy-Davies Graduate Student Award |
| SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) |
| Center for the Advanced Study of India Summer Research Grant |
| Center for Teaching and Learning Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence |
| SAS Dissertation Research Award |
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S. Eric Molin Prize for Best Conference Paper by a Graduate Student "Arthropods Under the Lens: The Aesthetic Instability of Insect Microscopy in the Caribbean" |
| SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) |
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Sweeten Award "Julia Fields and the Poetics of Engulfment" |
| Andrew W. Mellon Price Lab Doctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Maureen Furniss Best Graduate Student Essay Award |
2020
| SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) |
| Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Graduate Student Fellowship |
| H+U+D Mellon Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship |
| Predoctoral Fellowship, Woodson Center, UVA |
| Critical Speaking Program (CWiC) Graduate Teaching Fellowship |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| John Louis Haney Graduate Fellowship |
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William Patrick Day Essay Contest "If the Ear Were a Mouth" |
| Auerbach Graduate Dissertation Fellowship |
| Auerbach Graduate Dissertation Fellowship |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
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Sweeten Award "Fugitive Authorship: Non-synchronism and segregation in Fran Ross's Oreo" |
| Andrew W. Mellon Price Lab Doctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
| Center for Teaching and Learning Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence |
| Lynda S. Hart Award in Sexuality Studies |
| Poetic Practice/Kelly Writers House Graduate Dissertation Fellowship |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
| Sylvia Brown Research Award |
| Penn Program in Environmental Humanities Graduate Fellowship |
| Penn Pre-doctoral Fellowship for Excellence Through Diversity |
| The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies |
| Mellon Foundation Fellowship at Huntington Library |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
| Mainwaring Graduate Fellowship |
| Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Completion Fellowship |
| ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship |
| Phyllis Rackin Graduate Award |
| English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship |
2019
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| McNeil Center for Early American Studies Dissertation Fellowship |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) |
| SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) |
| Kings College Fellowship |
| Penn Program in Environmental Humanities Graduate Fellowship |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
| Auerbach Graduate Dissertation Fellowship |
| Kislak Dissertation Fellowship |
| FLAS Fellowship |
| Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students |
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Sweeten Award "The Parasitical Trick: Colonial Encounters between Mary Rowlandson and James Printer" |
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William Patrick Day Essay Contest Hearing Echoes: Glissant and Black Media Theory |
| JRS Student Mentorship in the English Department |
| Harry Ransom Center Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of Texas (Austin) |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
| Poetic Practice/Kelly Writers House Graduate Dissertation Fellowship |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "Material Poetics: Landfills and Waste Management in Contemporary Literature and Media" |
2018
| Kings College Fellowship |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
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William Patrick Day Essay Contest “Wrongful Convictions: Abraham Johnstone and the Poetics of the Dead End” |
| Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning |
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William Patrick Day Essay Contest “Kill the Body and the Head Will Die: Realism, Capitalism, and the Financier" |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
| Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students |
| GSWS Phyllis Rackin Graduate Student Award |
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Sweeten Award "Counter-Obsolescence from the Window: James Schuyler and the Urban Curative Imaginary,” |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "Infectious Affect: The Phobic Imagination in American Literature" |
| Funded Participant & Presenter, Folger Shakespeare Library Scholarly Institute |
| Kislak Dissertation Fellowship |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Kislak Dissertation Fellowship |
| Leboy-Davies Graduate Student Award |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
| SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) |
| SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) |
| Andrew W. Mellon Price Lab Doctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
2017
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FLAS Fellowship Language: Advanced isiZulu |
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Foreign Language Area Studies Summer Fellowship Location: Stellenbosch, South Africa; Language: Afrikaans |
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Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad Grant Country: South Africa; Language: isiZulu |
| Francis Hopkinson Fellowship |
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Sweeten Award "Seeing Conspiracy: Racial Violence and the Forms of White Supremacy in Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition" |
| GSWS Phyllis Rackin Graduate Student Award |
| SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship |
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William Patrick Day Essay Contest “Defoe Before Immunity: A Prophylactic Journal of the Plague Year” |
| Graduate Research Assistant with the Wolf Humanities Center and Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
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William Patrick Day Essay Contest “‘Tired of Cruising? Try Numbers!’: Pulp Sexology and the Literature of Quantity” |
| Kings College Fellowship |
| GSWS Phyllis Rackin Graduate Student Award |
| SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) |
| Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Fellowship |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
| Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
| Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
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English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship (declined) |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "Uncanny World: Envisioning Nature in Documentary." |
2016
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FLAS Fellowship Language: Basic isiZulu |
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Sweeten Award “Sounding Animal and Cyborg Others: Race and Alternate Alterities in Cathy Park Hong’s Translating Mo’um and John Yau’s Ing Grish, My Symptoms, and Borrow Love Poems.”
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| GSWS Phyllis Rackin Graduate Student Award |
| Kings College Fellowship |
| Francis Hopkinson Fellowship |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
| Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning |
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English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship (declined) |
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SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) (declined) |
| English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
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William Patrick Day Essay Contest “Not to Discover Weakness is The Artifice of Strength: Emily Dickinson, Limitation, and the Literary.” |
| SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "States of Repair: Institutions of Private Life in the Postwar Anglophone Novel"
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| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
2015
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William Patrick Day Essay Contest "Sarath Kumar Ghosh as Scheherazade: Hindu Heroism in Indian Nights' Entertainment: The Trials of Narayan Lal" |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
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Sweeten Award "Realism and the Social Bind: Charles Chesnutt, Individualism and Statistics" |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
| SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) |
| GSWS Phyllis Rackin Graduate Student Award |
| Critical Writing Teaching Fellowship |
| Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
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William Patrick Day Essay Contest "Nowhere's Safe: Ruinous Reconstruction in Muriel Spark's The Girls of Slender Means" |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
| Critical Writing Teaching Fellowship |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "Beyond Romance: Genre and History in England, 1066-1400" |
| Kings College Fellowship |
| Francis Hopkinson Fellowship |
| GSWS Phyllis Rackin Graduate Student Award |
2014
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "The Global Indies: Reading the Imaginative Geography of British Empire, 1763-1871" |
| Francis Hopkinson Fellowship |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship |
| English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship |
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William Patrick Day Essay Contest "Color-Phobia: Rabies, Race, Prejudice, and the Mad Cry of Analogy in U.S. Antislavery Print Culture" |
| Kings College Fellowship |
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Sweeten Award "Vachel Lindsay and the W. Cabell Greet Recordings: An Introduction" |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning |
2013
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "British Writing and the Culture of Projection: 1660-1790" |
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Sweeten Award "Critical Intimacy/Critical Inquiry" |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
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William Patrick Day Essay Contest "Beyond the Tree: Gertude Stein's The Making of Americans and the Modern Epic" |
| SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning |
| Kings College Fellowship |
2012
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "Remote Intimacies: Multilingualism in Contemporary Poetry" |
| Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "Sacra Jura: Literature, Law, and Piety in the Era of Magna Carta" |
| SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) |
| Kings College Fellowship |
| English/LPS Teaching & Research Fellowship |
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Sweeten Award "One More Time with Feeling: Reiterative Memorials and Reparative History in William Wells" |
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
2011
| Kings College Fellowship |
| Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "Intentional Communities: The Public Life of Race in American Literature, 1925-1961" |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
| Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students |
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Sweeten Award "Sharing Time: C.L.R. James and Southern Agrarian Movements" |
2010
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Kings College Fellowship |
| Sweeten Award |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "Accounting for Salvation in Middle English Literature" |
| Sweeten Award |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
| Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students |
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
2009
| Sweeten Award |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "Machines, Mechanism and the Making of the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century" |
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
| Kings College Fellowship |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "Geographies of English Eloquence" |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
2008
| Kings College Fellowship |
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
| Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "Knowledge Broken: Empiricist Method and the Forms of Romanticism" |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
2007
| Kings College Fellowship |
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "Romancing the Globe: Romance, English Expansion and the Early Modern Stage" |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "States of Mind: The Politics of Psychology in American Literature, 1780-1860" |
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Centre for Teaching and Learning |
2006
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "American Modernism and Depression Documentary" |
| Kings College Fellowship |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Kings College Fellowship |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "The Philosophy of the Face and 20th Century Literature and Art" |
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
2005
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "The 'School of Devotion': Imagination and Cognition in Medieval Meditations on Christ" |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "Engendering Great Britain: Literary Representations of Anglo-Scottish Relations, 1700-1730" |
2004
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "Manifesting America: Imperialism and National Space, 1776-1861" |
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
| Kings College Fellowship |
2003
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "The Modernist Collector and Black Modernity, 1914-1934" |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
2002
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
2001
| William Patrick Day Essay Contest |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
2000
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize God Among Thieves: Marx's Christological Theory of Value and Literature of the English Reformation |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
1999
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize Prosthetic Gods: Subject/Object in Early Modern England |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize The Revival of Learning: The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson |
1998
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize The Subject of Property: Race, Prosthesis, and Possession in American Culture, 1865-1927 |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize "Cain, Nimrod, and the Erotics of Wandering in Late-Medieval Narrative" |
1997
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize The Art of Alibi: A History of the Novel and the Law Courts |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1996
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1995
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize Imagine Empires: Incas, Aztecs and the Columbian Trope in American Literature, 1771-1876 |
1994
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize The Practice of Poetry in Early Modern English |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1993
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize Commercial Fiction: Advertising and Ficiton in American Magazines, 1880s to 1910s |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize The Poetics of Trade: Finance and Fictionality in the Early 18th Century |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1992
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize Free Fiction: Individual and Institutional Visions of the American Short Story, 1842-1982 |
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Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize Textual Rreproduction: Collaboration, Gender and Authorship in Renaissance Drama |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1991
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1990
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1989
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1988
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1987
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1986
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1985
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1984
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1983
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1982
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1981
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1980
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1979
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
1978
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |