Department of English

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Roger Beebe

• Awards for individual films (list will open in a new browser window)
• Florida Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, 2006
• Echo Park Film Center, Inaugural Artist in Residence, 2005
• UF Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund Grant, 2004-05
• Florida Arts Council, Individual Artist Fellowships, Honorable Mention, 2002–03
• Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Grant (for “A Woman, A Mirror”), 2002–03
• UF Humanitites Scholarship Enhancement Fund Grant, 2001–02
• Flicker Film Grant #9, 1998
• John Spencer Basset Fund Grant (for post–production of “Eat Art”), 1997
• Freewater Film Production Grants, 1996 & 1997

Marsha Bryant

• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship, 2007–08
• UF Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Grant, 2007
• CLAS Teacher of the Year Award, 2005
• CLAS Teacher of the Year Award, 2002
• UF Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Grant, 2000
• UF Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, 1996
• UF Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, 1993
• UF Research Development Award, 1992
• CLAS Teacher of the Year Award, 1991
• UF Research Development Award, 1990

Richard Burt

• Nominated for CLAS Teaching Award, 2003
• Fulbright Research Scholar, Berlin (Humboldt University and the Free University), 1995–96

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Ronald H. Carpenter

• Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award, National Communication Association, 2004
• Giles Wilkeson Gray Endowed Lectureship, Louisiana State University, 2001
• CLAS Teacher of the Year Award, 2002
• Michael M. Osborn Teacher-Scholar Award, Southern States Communication Association, 1999
• Listing Among the “Top 3% of Active Prolific Scholars in Communication Studies,” National Communication Association, 1993
• Golden Anniversary Monograph Prize for Outstanding Scholarship, National Communication Association, 1984
• University of Florida President’s Scholar Award, 1978–79
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Fellowship, 1976
• Fellow of the Huntington Library Award, 1973–74

Jill Ciment

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 2006
• Janet Heidenger Kafka Prize for best novel by an American woman (for The Tattoo Artist), 2005
• Los Angeles Times Writer’s Pick for Favorite Book of 2005 (for The Tattoo Artist)
• New York Public Library’s 25 Books to Remember from 2005 (for The Tattoo Artist)
• New York State Foundation for the Arts in Creative Writing, 2002
• National Endowment for the Arts/Japan Fellowship, 1999
• New York State Foundation for the Arts in Creative Writing, 1996
• National Endowment for the Arts in Creative Writing, 1995

E

Kim Emery

• CLAS Teacher of the Year Award, 1996

G

Andrew Gordon

• Nominated for CLAS Teaching Award, 2003–04
• UF Division of Sponsored Research Award, 1993
• Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Literature, Yugoslavia, 1984–85
• UF Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund Grant, 1980
• Fulbright Junior Lecturer in American Literature, Portugal, 1979
• Fulbright Junior Lecturer in American Literature, Spain, 1973–75

Debora Greger

• Best American Poetry 2006 (Scribner), 2006
• Corrington Award for Literary Excellence, Centenary College, 2004
• Smart Family Foundation Prize, Yale Review, 1999
• Best American Poetry 1998 (Scribner), 1998
• Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Poetry Prize, Poetry, 1994
• Best American Poetry 1994 (Scribner), 1994
• Brandeis University Award for Poetry, 1993
• Best American Poetry 1991 (Scribner), 1991
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 1991
• Award in Literature, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1990
• Best American Poetry 1989 (Scribner), 1989
• Best American Poetry 1988 (Macmillan), 1988
• Peter I.B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, Academy of American Poets, 1987
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Poetry, 1987
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 1985
• Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, 1982
• Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, 1981
• Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Fellowship, 1980
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 1978
• Discovery/The Nation Award in Poetry, 1977
• Grolier Poetry Prize, 1976
• Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Fellowship in Poetry, 1975

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Terry Harpold

• UF Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund Grant, 2007-08
• CLAS Teaching Award, 2007–08
• UF Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund Grant, 2004–05
• Postmodern Culture Outstanding Essay Prize (for “Dark Continents: Critique of Internet Metageographies”), 1999

Michael Hofmann

• Selected Poems a PBS Special Commendation, 2008
• John and Bonnie Nims Memorial Prize for Poems in Translation in Poetry (for Gottfried Benn translations), 2007
• Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize (for Ashes for Breakfast), 2007
• inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a Foreign Member, 2005
• one of 3 judges for the ALTA Translation Prize, 2005
• one of 3 judges for the $100,000 Lilly Prize, 2005
• First Editors’ Prize for a review-essay in Poetry (Chicago), 2004
• First Deka Bank Preis of 25,000 euros ‘fur die Vermittlung deutscher
  Kultur im Ausland,’ 2004
• Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize (for Storm of Steel), 2004
• Second Spycher Preis from the commune of Leuk in Switzerland, 2002
• Co-judged the $50,000 Griffin Poetry Prizes in Toronto, 2002
• P.E.N./ Book of the Month Club Translation Citation for The Hothouse, 2002
• Rebellion won the Kurt and Helen Wolff Prize for German Translation, 2000
• P.E.N./ Book of the Month Club Translation Prize for The Tale of the 1002nd Night, 1999
• IMPAC Dublin Literary Award of $100,000 for The Land of Green Plums, 1998 (shared with the author)
  
• An Arts Council of England Bursary for poetry, 1997
• The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Film Explainer, 1994
• Named one of twenty U.K. New Generation Poets for Corona, Corona, 1994
• Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Acrimony, 1988
• Cholmondeley Award for Nights in the Iron Hotel, 1984
  

Norman Holland

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1979–80
• Senior Research Associate, The Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, Fall 1979
• American Council of Learned Societies Senior Fellowship, 1974–75
• Faculty Research Fellowship (State University of New York), Summer 1979
• Faculty Research Fellowship (State University of New York), Summer 1974
• Faculty Research Fellowship (State University of New York), 1968–69
• Faculty Research Travel Grant, Summer 1971
• Old Dominion Fellow, 1962–63

Sidney Homan

• CLAS Teaching Award 2007–08

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R. Brandon Kershner

• Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation
• UF Special Award “For Continuing Meritorious Contributions to Undergraduate Research,” 1998–99
• Teaching Incentive Program Award, 1995–96
• American Conference for Irish Studies Award, best work of the year in literary criticism (for Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature), 1990
• First Prize, Florida Poetry Contest, 1978

Debra Walker King

• Schomburg Scholar Fellowship, Spring 1999
• UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) Achievement Award, 1999
• Ford Foundation Fellowships, NRC, 1998
• UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) Achievement Award, 1997
• CLAS Teacher of the Year Award, 1996–97
• Ford Foundation Fellowships, NRC, 1994

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David Leavitt

• Kiryama Prize Notable Book, 2008
• PEN/Faulkner Prize Finalist, 2007
• New York Public Library Literary Lion, 2007
• New York Public Library 25 Books to Read for The Indian Clerk, 2007
• New York Public Library Literary Lion, 1994
• Finalist for Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, 1993
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1985
• Finalist for PEN/Faulkner Award, 1984
• Finalist for National Book Critics’ Circle Award, 1984
• Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1989

William Logan

• 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism (for The Undiscovered Country), 2006
• Best Book of Criticism, 2005, Contemporary Poetry Review (for The Undiscovered Country), 2006
• Randall Jarrell Award in Criticism (inaugural winner), The Poetry Foundation, 2005
• Corrington Medal for Literary Excellence and Attaway Fellow, Centenary College, 2004
• Allen Tate Prize, Sewanee Review, 2004
• J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize, Poetry, 2003
• Elizabeth Matchett Stover Memorial Award, Southwest Review, 2003
• University of Florida Anderson/CLAS Scholar Faculty Honoree, 2000
• Finalist, 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism (for Reputations of the Tongue), 2000
• Teacher of the Year Award, CLAS, 1999
• Notable Book of the Year, New York Times Book Review (for Vain Empires), 1998
• Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, Academy of American Poets, 1989
• The Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, National Book Critics Circle, 1988

M

Kevin McCarthy

• Distinguished Colleague Award, Florida College English Association, 2007

Barbara Mennel

• CLAS Teaching Award, 2007-08

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Judith W. Page

• Chawton House Library Fellowship, UK, Spring 2008
• UF Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund Grant, 2005–06
• Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford University, Skirball Fellowship, 2003
• NEH Year-long Fellowship, Alternate for 2002
• UF Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund Grant, 2001–02
• Choice, Outstanding Academic Book of 1995, Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women, 1995
• CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) Professor of the Year, State of Mississippi, 1990

James Paxson

• CLAS Teacher of the Year Award, 2000–01

Padgett Powell

• Honorary Doctorate of Letters, College of Charleston, SC, 2002
• Mary Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, 2002
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Term Professorship, University of Florida, 1999
• Fondation William Faulkner, Université de Rennes (France), Writer in Residence, 1998
• Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, State of Florida, 1996
• Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, State of Florida, 1993
• Paris Review John Train Humor Prize, 1991
• Pushcart Prize, 1990
• Fulbright Lectureship, Istanbul, Turkey, 1989
• American Academy of Arts and Letters Prix de Rome, 1987
• Whiting Foundation Writers’ Award, 1986
• American Book Award Nominee (for Edisto), 1984
• Time Magazine Best-of-Year Fiction list (for Edisto), 1984
• Henfield Foundation Transatlantic Review Award, 1981

R

Robert Ray

• UF Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, 2005–present
• UF Research Foundation Professor, 2000–02
• UF Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, 1995
• CLAS Teacher of the Year, 1993
• CLAS Outstanding Teacher Award, 1986
• Finalist for CLAS Teacher of the Year, 1985
• Poetry Oscar Blumenthal Prize for Poetry, 1980
• Poetry Bess Hokin Prize for Poetry, 1979

Mark A. Reid

• Fulbright German Studies Seminar, Tübingen and Berlin, Germany, and Strasbourg, France, 2006
• Choice Outstanding Title (for Black Lenses, Black Voices: African American Film Now), 2005
• UF Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund Grant, 2003
• University of Notre Dame Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fall 2001
• UF Research Foundation Professorship, 1999–2001
• UF Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund Grant, 1999
• UF CLAS Research Initiation Award, 1997     
• American Council of Learned Societies Grant for Travel to International Meetings Abroad, 1995
• University of California-Davis Faculty Research Grant, 1994
• UF Division of Sponsored Research Grant for New Faculty, 1990–91
• McKnight Junior Faculty Fellow, 1990–91
• Indiana University-Bloomington, Summer Faculty Recruitment Fellow, 1987
• University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Junior Fulbright Scholar, 1985

Mary Robison

• Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize for Why Did I Ever, 2001
• Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1980

Peter L. Rudnytsky

• Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Spring 2008
• Fulbright/Sigmund Freud Society Visiting Scholar in Psychoanalysis (Vienna), Spring 2004
• Gradiva Award for Best Book (Theory) in Psychoanalysis, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (for Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck), 2003
• Award for Outstanding Contributions to Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy, and Education, International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, 2001
• Eccles Fellowship, University of Utah Humanities Center, 1994–95
• Fulbright Western European Regional Research Scholar, 1988–89

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Malini Johar Schueller

• Nominated for CLAS Outstanding Teacher Award, 2003
• Nominated for CLAS Outstanding Teacher Award, 2000
• Nominated for CLAS Outstanding Teacher Award, 1997
• Teaching Incentive Performance Award, University of Florida, 1995

Stephanie Smith

• UF Humanities Sponsored Research Award, 2006
• Norcroft Writing Residency Fellowship, May, 2005
• Norcroft Writing Residency Fellowship, May–June, 2000
• New Letters Award, 2000
• Einstein Forum Fellow, Potsdam, Germany, 1999
• UF Humanities Sponsored Research Award, 1999
• NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship, 1998
• UF Humanities Sponsored Research Award, 1997
• Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residency Fellowship, 1996
• UF Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, 1995
• UF Humanities Sponsored Research Award, 1992
• UF Humanities Sponsored Research Award, 1991
• Dorland Mountain Arts Colony Residency, 1986
• Draper Fellowship, Boston University, 1981
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1981

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Maureen Turim

• UF Division of Sponsored Research Professorship
• Nominated for CLAS Teaching Award, 2005

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Gregory Ulmer

• European Graduate School, Joseph Beuys Chair, <http://www.egs.edu/>
• UF Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, 2006–09
• Who’s Who in Humanities Higher Education Professional Excellence Program,  University of Florida, 1996
• First Herb and Catherine Yardley Term Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1995–96
• CLAS and University Awards, Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, 1990–91
• Finalist, CLAS Teacher of the Year, 1984
• Lilly Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, 1979–80
• NEH Summer Research Grant, 1979

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Phillip E. Wegner

• CLAS Teacher of the Year, 2000
• Battisti Award, Utopian Studies, 1999
• UF Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, 1998
• CLAS Teacher of the Year, 1996
• Battisti Award, Utopian Studies, 1994
• Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1987–92