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Scholarly Awards Received by Faculty Literature Faculty
Index of Listed Faculty
Literature Faculty Erik Dussere Deborah Payne Fisk Despina Kakoudaki David Keplinger Charles Larson Jonathan Loesberg Richard McCann Madhavi Menon Marianne Noble Denise Orenstein David Pike Roberta Rubenstein Richard C. Sha Anita Sherman Marcela Sulak Michael Wenthe College Writing Faculty Robert Drummond Randon Noble Cynthia L. Bair Van Dam Erik Dussere Toni Morrison Society Recognition for Balancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison, and the Economies of Slavery, presented at the Third Biennial Conference of the Toni Morrison Society, 2003 Deborah Payne Fisk Folger Shakespeare Library Long Term Fellowship, 2000-2001 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Short Term Fellowship, 1999 Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship, 1998 Folger Institute for Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Studies Course Release, 1998 American University Distinguished Teaching Award, 1992 NEH/Folger Shakespeare Library Short Term Fellowship, 1990 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Short Term Fellowship, 1989 Mellon/William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1986 Despina Kakoudaki Clark-Cooke Grant for Research in the Humanities, Harvard University, 2001-2003 and 2004-2005 Course Innovation Award, Harvard University, 2002 and 2003 Chancellor's Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley, 1997 Fulbright Scholarship, 1991-1996 David Keplinger 2005 Erskine Prize from Smartish Pace Magazine 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 2001 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship 1999 T.S. Eliot Prize for The Rose Inside (poetry)
Charles R. Larson Senior Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1985-1986. Fellow, The National Faculty, Atlanta, Georgia, 1979-. Guggenheim Fellow, 1976-1977. Younger Humanist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1974. Fulbright Lecturer for Africa, Department of State, 1973 Jonathan Loesberg ACLS Fellowship, 1995-1996 Co-Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "From Romantics to Victorians: The Cultural Transition," 1990 Mellon Grant for Faculty Support, 1985 Richard McCann
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2006-2007 Goldfarb Fellowship in Nonfiction, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2006 Presidential Research Fellowship, American University, 2006-2007 John C. Zacharis First Book Award, Ploughshares Magazine, 2006 Finalist, PEN/Robert Bingham Award, 2006 (for Mother of Sorrows) Finalist, Lambda Literary Award, 2005 (for Mother of Sorrows) 2006 American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book Award (for Mother of Sorrows) American University 2005 Scholar-Teacher of the Year Doris Roberts-William Goyen Fellowship, Christopher Isherwood Foundation, 2005 Washingtonian Magazine Best Books of 2005 (Mother of Sorrows) 10 Best Books of 2005, San Francisco Bay Times (Mother of Sorrows) Reader's Digest Fellowship for Distinguished Writers, Corporation of Yaddo, 2005 The New York Times Fellowship, Corporation of Yaddo, 2003 Best American Essays 2000 Best Essay Award, National Association of Sunday Magazine Editors (for “To Whom It May Concern,” originally published in the Washington Post Magazine), 2000 D.C. Commission on the Arts Fellowships, 1997, 1993, 1992, 1990 Creative Writing Fellowship (fiction), National Endowment for the Arts, 1995 Finalist, Lambda Literary Award, 1995 (for Ghost Letters) Beatrice Hawley Award, 1994 (for Ghost Letters) Capricorn Poetry Award, 1994 (for Ghost Letters) Stanley Kunitz Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, 1993-94 Fellowship, Blue Mountain Center, 1992 PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, 1991 Fellowship, Djerassi Foundation, 1991 Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony, 1987 (other fellowships to the MacDowell Colony in 2001, 1997, 1993, 1991, and 1989) 1982-83 Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Studies, Göteborg Universitet, Göteborg, Sweden Master Poet, Virginia Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 1974 Charles Philbrick Fellow, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, 1972-1973
Madhavi Menon Wanton Words nominated for the Phyllis Goodhart Gordon Book Prize, Renaissance Society of America, 2004 Marianne Noble Denise Orenstein DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities Small Projects Literary Award, 2004 American University Office of Multicultural Affairs Distinguished Faculty Award, 2003 ALA Booklist Editor’s Award, Best Historical Fiction, 2003 (Unseen Companion) YALSA Best Book for Young Adults (nomination), 2003 (Unseen Companion) Mark Twain Award (nomination), 1982 (When the Wind Blows Hard) David Pike Canadian Studies Research Grant, Government of Canada, 2006. Faculty Enrichment Grant, Government of Canada, 2001 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1998-1999 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1998-1999 Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1997 (Passage through Hell) Council of Graduate Schools Gustave O. Arlt Award for Passage through Hell, 1997 University Research Award, American University, 1996-1997 Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Comparative Literature, 1993-95 Florence Howe Essay Award, Women’s Caucus of the Modern Language Association, 1999 University Scholar/Teacher of the Year, American University, 1994 American University Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Development, 1989 Senior Scholar Award, American University College of Arts and Sciences, 1987 Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Arts and Sciences, 1987, 1979 National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Faculty Research Fellowship, 1981-1982 Fulbright Scholar, 1966-1968 Richard C. Sha NEH Summer Stipend for Senior Scholars, 2004 Andrew Mellon Fellowship, Huntington Library, 1999 Yale Center for British Art Fellowship, 1993 Anita Sherman Marcela Sulak First Prize, Academy of American Poets, 2002, 1992 Michael Wenthe Rhodes Scholarship, 1995
College Writing FacultyRobert Drummond Mary Roberts Rinehart Award for Fiction, May 2006 Fishtrap Writing Fellowship, Fishtrap Inc, Summer 2006 (tuition) Finalist/Publication, Sycamore Review Wabash Prize for Fiction, 2006 (“Life’s Funny that Way”) Nominee, Pushcart Prize for Short Fiction, 2005 (“Motility”) Randon Noble Cynthia L. Bair Van Dam
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