Department of English
Like our faculty, our graduate students are excellent teachers and have received due recognition for their efforts in the classroom. Here's a record of some of the teaching awards our graduate students have won in the past:
Graduate Teaching Awards
2020
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| SAS Dean's Scholar Award |
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 |
| 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 |
| JRS Student Mentorship in the English Department |
| Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF) |
| Poetic Practice/Kelly Writers House Graduate Dissertation Fellowship |
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" |
| Kislak Dissertation Fellowship |
| Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students |
| Kislak Dissertation Fellowship |
| 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
| 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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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 |