Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

George Lynn Cross Research Professor, University of Oklahoma (2009)

Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (2005)

Honorary Professorship, Soochow University, Suzhou, China (2005)

Research Grant, Oklahoma Humanities Council (2002)

Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Big 12 Universities, University of Missouri (Spring 2000)

Faculty Enrichment Grants, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma (1999, 2002, 2003)

Research Fellowships, Center for Humanistic Studies, Purdue University (1989 and 1996)

Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Phi Kappa Phi (1992)

Moss Chair of Excellence, University of Memphis (1991)

Outstanding Academic Book, Choice Award, Association of College and Research Libraries (1988)

Excellence in Teaching Awards, Department of English, Purdue University (1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996)

Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (1985-86)

Study Fellowship, Mellon Foundation (1981)

Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (1980)

Fulbright-Hays Lectureship (1979)

Postdoctoral Fellowship, School of Criticism and Theory (1978)

Postdoctoral Seminar Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, Princeton University (1976)

Research Grant, American Philosophical Society (1974)

Biography appears in:

          Contemporary Authors, Vol. 113

          Who's Who in America, 48th and most later editions