Teaching Awards

The Department is proud of its superlative teaching, as exemplified by the following professors and Ph.D. students who have received teaching awards and distinctions from the department, the Associated Student Government, the Weinberg College, and Northwestern University itself.

Faculty    |    Graduate Students

Faculty Teaching Awards

Kasey Evans
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (2009-10)

Nick Davis
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (2010-11)

Sheila Donohue
Northwestern Faculty Honor Roll Award (2002)

Mary Finn
Associated Student Government Administrator Honor Roll (2010-11)

Jay Grossman
Northwestern Faculty Honor Roll Award (2006)

Christopher Herbert
Wender-Lewis Research and Teaching Professor (2002)
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (1982-83)
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (1974-75)

John Keene
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (2005-06)

Mary Kinzie
Martin J. and Patricia Koldyke Outstanding Teaching Professorship (1990-92)

Jules Law
Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll (2010-11)
Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll (2009-10)
Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll (2008-09)
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence (2007-10)
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (2001-02)

Jeffrey Masten
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (2002-03)
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence (2006-09)

Barbara Newman
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence (2003-06)
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (1990-91)

Susie Phillips
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (2007-08)
Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll (2008-09)

Bill Savage
James Friend Memorial Award in Literary Criticism (2006)
School of Continuing Studies Distinguished Teaching Award (2004-05)
Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll (2003-04)
Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll (2002-03)
Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll (2001-02)

Carl S. Smith
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence (1994-97)
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (1979-80)

Julia Stern
Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll (2010-11)
Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence (2008-11)
Panhellenic Association Teaching Award (1999)
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (1998-99)
Associated Student Government Mortar Board Award (1992-93)

Glenn Sucich
Associated Student Government Administrator Honor Roll (2010-11)
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award (2008-09)

Elizabeth Trubey
Associated Student Government Administrator Honor Roll (2010-11)

Wendy Wall
Wender-Lewis Research and Teaching Professor (1998-2001)
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (1997-98)
Associated Student Government Mortar Board Award (1992-93)

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Graduate Student Teaching Awards

Hagstrum Prize    |    Department Teaching Awards    |    College Teaching Awards

Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation
2010-11	Abram Van Engen (Ph.D. 2010)	The Sentimental Puritan
2009-10	Jeffrey Knight (Ph.D. 2009)	Compiling Culture: Textual Assembly and the Production of Renaissance Literature
2008-09	Hyun Jung Lee (Ph.D. 2009)	Evil Genius: Victorian Popular Fiction as Moral Philosophy
2007-08	Gayle Rogers (Ph.D 2008)	British Modernism and Ortega's Spanish Vanguard: Cosmopolitanism, Circulation, and Modernity, 1922-1939
2006-07	Wen Jin (Ph.D. 2006)	Rethinking Cultural Translation: Multiculturalism and Chinese American Transnational Literature
	Dan Gleason (Ph.D. 2007)	Seeing Imagism: A Poetics of Literary Visualization
2005-06	William Huntting Howell (Ph.D. 2005)	"A more perfect copy than heretofore": Imitation, Emulation, and the Early American Literary Culture
2004-05	Dana Bilsky (Ph.D. 2005)	Tangled Skeins: Identification and Tantasmatic Genealogies of Slavery in Narratives by Jacobs, Crafts, Wilson, and Keckley
2003-04	Benjamin Pauley (Ph.D. 2004)	The Common Class of Men: Law and the Lay Reader in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
2001-02	Matthew Frankel (Ph.D. 2001)	The Aesthetics of Citizenship: Race, Representation, and the American Sublime
1999-2000	Bradley Deane (Ph.D. 1999)	The Making of the Victorian Novelist: Authorship, Ideology, and the Mass Market
1998-99	Claire Waters (Ph.D. 1998)	Doctrine Embodied: Gender, Performance, and Authority in Late-Medieval Preaching

	English Department Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award		English Department Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
2010-11	Joshua Smith (Ph.D. 2011)		Meghan Daly
2009-10	Carissa Harris Greg Laski		Winter Werner
2008-09	Nathaniel Small		Jacquelyn Murdock
2007-08	Elizabeth McCabe		Greg Laski
2006-07	Scott Proudfit (Ph.D. 2008)		Jenny Lee
2005-06	Hyun-Jung Lee (Ph.D. 2009)		Anna Fenton-Hathaway

Weinberg College and Associated Student Government Teaching Awards
2010-11	Michael Slater	ASG Faculty & Administrator Honor Roll
2007-08	Abram Van Engen (Ph.D. 2010)	WCAS Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2006-07	Christie Harner (Ph.D. 2010)	WCAS Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2003-04	Deana Greenfield	WCAS Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2002-03	Coleman Hutchison (Ph.D. 2006)	WCAS Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2000-01	Matthew Frankel (Ph.D. 2001)	WCAS Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
1999-2000	Christopher Hager (Ph.D. 2003)	WCAS Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
	Eric LeMay (Ph.D. 2002)