University and Departmental Awards for Teaching
Departmental Awards for Scholarship
External Awards and Recognitions

University and Departmental Awards for Teaching

James A. Robinson Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

2009: Laura Heninger Hill (Literature); Jasmine Lellock (Writing)

2008:  David Coley (Literature); Heather Brown (Writing) 

2007:  Kelly Wisecup (Literature); Damion Clark (Writing)

2006:  Lara Crowley (Literature); Elizabeth Whitney (Writing)

2005:  Andrew Raymond Bossert (Literature); Wendy Hayden (Writing) 

2004:  Rhondda Thomas (Literature); Donna Packer-Kinlaw (Writing)

University of Maryland Center for Teaching Excellence Awards to Distinguished Teaching Assistants

2008-09:  Agnes Bannigan, Eric Curry, Christy DeSanctis, Schuyler Esprit, Kara Fontenot, Brent McCafferty, Kimberly O'Connor,Natalie Phillips.   

2007-08:  Michelle Boswell, Heather Brown, David Coley, Maura Elford, Stephanie Graham, Sarah Hamilton, Mark Hoffmann, Mary Frances Jiminez, Mirona Magearu

2006-07: Damion Clark, Julie Fiorelli, Mary Frances Jimenez, Gillian Knoll, Rebecca Lush, Christine Maffuccio, Jason Payton, Kelly Wisecup

2005-06:  Hannah Baker, Kathleen Barker, Rebekah Benson, Amber Cohen, Lisa Higgins, Ryan Kehoe, Megan Monserez, Michael Rosenberg, Benjamin Strickling, Rhondda Thomas, Shaundra Thomas, Amanda Travers, Jennifer Wellman, Laura Williams

2004-05:  David Adams, Kathleen Barker, Andrew Raymond Bossert, Cameron Bushnell, Charlotte Cline, David Coley, Nancy Comorau, Leslie Jansen, Elizabeth Kelly, Paul Otremba, Helen DeVinney

2003-04: Allyson Fetterhof, Edmund Chang, Erin Baggett, James Wynn, Jennifer Harding, Kathleen Barker, Margaret Kozicharow, Michael Doerrer, Rebekah Benson, Rhondda Thomas, Robert Ford, Sonya Brown

Departmental Awards for Scholarship

Carl Bode Prize

2009 Misun Dokko. "Dirty Bodies: Filth and Marginal Characters in Asian American Literature." Disstertation directed by Kandice Chuh.

2008  Wendy Hayden. "Unlikely Rhetorical Allies: How Science Warranted U.S. Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century Discourses of Sexuality." Dissertation directed by Jeanne Fahnestock.

2007  Allison Fetterhof. "Strategic Nonnarration in Henry James." Dissertation directed by John Auchard

and   Tim Helwig. "Race, Nativism, and the Making of Class in Antebellum City-Mysteries." Dissertation directed by Robert Levine.

2006   Jaime Osterman Alves.  "Miss Schooled: American Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century."  Dissertation directed by Jonathan Auerbach.

2005   Edward Whitley. "American Bards: The Unlikely Bids for the Title of American Poet by James M. Whitfield, Eliza R. Snow, John Rollin Ridge, and Walt Whitman." Dissertation directed by Robert Levine and Martha Nell Smith.

2004   Lara Vetter.  "Theorizing Modernism: Sexuality, Science, and Spirituality in H.D. and Mina Loy's Visionary Prose." Disseration directed by Martha Nell Smith. 

Alice L. Geyer Prize

2009 David Coley. "The Wheel of Language: Representing Speech in Middle English Narrative, 1377-1422." Dissertation directed by Theresa Coletti.

2008  Elizabeth McClure. “Sensation, Pain, and Sympathy in Victorian Literature." Dissertaion directed by William Cohen.

 2007  Catherine Field. "'Many Hands Hands': Early Modern Englishwomens' Recipe Books and the Writing of Food, Politics, and the Self." Dissertation directed by Jane Donawerth. 

2006  Erin Sadlack. "‘In Writing It May Be Spoke:' The Politics of Women's Letter-Writing, 1377-1603." Dissertation directed by Theresa Coletti and Jane Donawerth.

2005   Nora Bellows.  "Purgative Texts:  Religion, Revulsion, and the Rhetoric of Insurgency in Early Modern England."  Dissertation directed by Donna Hamilton.

2004  Eric Berlatsky.  "Fact, Fiction, and Fabrication: History, Narrative, and the Postmodern Real from Woolf to Rushdie."  Dissertation directed by Brian Richardson.

Kinnaird Prize

2009 PhD: Lindsay Dunne. "Public Cure/Counterpublic Cause: Rhetorics of the Breast Cancer Movement."

2009 MA: Michelle Boswell. "Choosing Comedy and Philosophy: Constance Naden's Hylo-Idealist Poetics."

2008 MA:  Maggie Fromm. "Dame Sirith: The History According to the Text."  

2008 PhD:  Lawrence-Minh Davis. "'I'm Nat Textuell': Clerking and Anxiety in the Canterbury Tale."

2007 MA:  Caryn Taylor. "The (Un)Intelligibility of Experience in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit."

2007 PhD: Elizabeth Veisz. "'warm ebullitions of African Sensibility': Diaspora and Sentiment in Ignatius Sancho's Letters."

2006 MA:  Joanne Roby. "Reading Silent Thoughts in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out and To The Lighthouse."

2006 PhD:  Kelly Wisecup. "The Progress of the Heat Within: The West Indies, Yellow fever, and the Cartographies of Citizenship in William Wells Brown's Clotel."

2005 MA:  Margaret Rice. "Recuperating the Erotic Experience through Appropriation: A Rereading of Mary Magdalene Founds an Apologia for the Protestant Mary Magdalene."                    

2005 PhD: Kathleen Barker. "‘Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion?' Chester's Antichrist and the Appropriation of the Imposter in A Midsummer Night's Dream."

2004  MA: Kathleen Barker. "‘Wher your judgment or pen fayld you, I have made boulde to use mine': Versioning John Fletcher's  ‘The Woman's Prize' (1611)."

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QCB Research and Travel Grants

2009 Damien Clark. QCB Grant to support research in the Hall-Carpenter Archives housed at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

2009 Anita Baksh. QCB Grant to support archival research related to her dissertation, "Unhomely Voices: Indo-Caribbean Writers and the Anglophone Caribbean Literary Canon."

2008  Jason Payton.  QCB grant to do research at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass.

2007 Emily Dagger; award for research at the University of Toronto for her dissertation, "'Based on a True Story': Criminal Historiography and Contemporary Fiction."

2007 Kelly Wisecup; award for dissertation-related research on Native American religion and medicine at the Newberry Library.

2007 Tim Crowley; award for research in Spanish archives for his dissertation, "Religion, dynastic Politics, and the Poetics of Spanish and English epic romance."

2006 Elizabeth McClure; award for research at the British Library and archives in Yorkshire for her dissertation, "Sensation in Nineteenth-Century British Literature."

2006 Wendy Hayden; award for research at archives at Amherst and Smith Colleges for her dissertation, "Discourses of Science in Nineteenth-Century Feminists Polemics."

2005 Lara Crowley; award for research at the British Library for her dissertation, "Manuscript Context and Literary Interpretation: John Donne's Poetry and Prose in Seventeenth-Century England."

2005 Nazera Wright; award for research at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Historical Society for her dissertation on conduct books for black girls.

2005 Magdelyn Hammond; award for research at the British Library for her dissertation, "Writing with Image: Verbal-Visual Collaboration in Twentieth-Century Poetry."

2004 Robin Smiles; award for research at Howard Gotlieb Research Center, Boston University, for her dissertation, "Romance, Race, and Resistance in Contemporary African-American Narrative."

2004 Timothy Helwig; award for research at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, for his dissertation, "Race, Nativism, and the Making of Class in Antebellum City-Mysteries."

External Awards and Recognitions (see also Fellowship Recipients)

2009-2010

Isis Semaj. Southern Regional Education Board Fellowship.

2008-2009

Jason Payton. W.M. Kleck Foundation Fellow and John Carter Brown Library Fellowship

2007-08

Kathleen Barker.  Received Cosmos Club Young Scholars grant. 

Tim Crowley. Received "Calvin & Rose G. Hoffman Prize" for a Distinguished Essay on Christopher Marlowe.”  

Kelly Wisecup.  Received Cosmos Club Young Scholars grant.

2006-2007

Deborah Bailin, Emily Dagger, Megan Monserez, and Kelly Wisecup. Participants, "Reconfigurations of American Studies," Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College.

David Coley.  Phi Beta Kappa Delta Scholarship, Connecticut College.

Lisa Higgins. Participant in Folger Institute Seminar, "The Novel à la Mode," Folger Shakespeare Library.

Tasos Lazarides. Cyprus-America Scholarship, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and Cyprus Fulbright Commission.

2005-2006

Lara Crowley. Participant in Folger Institute Seminar, "Researching the Archives," Folger Shakespeare Library.

Marc Ruppel. Travel Bursary from Association for Computers and the Humanities, to attend conference on Digital Humanities 2006 at the Sorbonne, Paris.

Kelly Wisecup:  Rosa Parks Maryland Delegate Scholarship;  Doyle Niemann Maryland Delegate Scholarship, Maryland House of Delegates.

2004-2005

Tanya Clement. Bursary Award from Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, for travel to Annual Convention.

Mihaela Moscaliuc. Writers' Residency at Le Chateau de Lavigny, Switzerland; Ledig-Rowohit Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Erin Sadlack. Cosmos Club Foundation Grant-in-Aid to Young Scholars. For dissertation research at the British Library and Public Record Office, London, England.

Nazera Wright. Participant, "Outside American Studies," Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College.

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