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

Nick Davis
Associated Student Government Faculty & Administrator Honor Roll (2011-12)
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (2010-11)

Sheila Donohue
Associated Student Government Faculty & Administrator Honor Roll (2011-12)
Northwestern Faculty Honor Roll Award (2002)

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

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

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

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

Susie Phillips
Associated Student Government Faculty & Administrator Honor Roll (2008-09)
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (2007-08)
Associated Student Government Faculty & Administrator Honor Roll (2003-04)

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

Shauna Seliy
Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award (2011-12)

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

Julia Stern
Weinberg College Outstanding Freshman Advising Award (2011-12)
Associated Student Government Faculty & Administrator 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 Faculty & Administrator Honor Roll (2010-11)
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award (2008-09)

Elizabeth Trubey
Associated Student Government Faculty & 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)

Graduate Student Teaching Awards

Hagstrum Prize | Department Teaching Awards | College Teaching Awards

*Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation*
2011-12	Greg Laski (Ph.D. 2012)	The Present-Past: Race, Repetition, and the Temporality of American Democracy after Slavery
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
2006-07	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 Teaching Award*	*English Department Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award*
2011-12	Carolina Hotchandani	Alanna Hickey
2010-11	Joshua Smith	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	Jenny Lee
2005-06	Hyun-Jung Lee	Anna Fenton-Hathaway

*Weinberg College and Associated Student Government Teaching Awards*
2011-12	Maha Jafri	WCAS Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
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
1999-2000	Eric LeMay (Ph.D. 2002)	WCAS Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher

The English Major in Writing Celebrates 30 Years on campus
Jo Ann Beard, Frank Bidart, and George Saunders were Writers in Residence for the English Major in Writing’s 3rd Annual Spring Writers’ Festival
Creative Writing students gather at the 3rd Annual Spring Writer’s Festival
English Department faculty attend one of the talks organized as part of the annual One Book, One Northwestern program
Writing students Cathy Gao (left) and Alleliah Nuguid (right) meet writer Elizabeth Benedict (center) at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
Northwestern writing students Matt Pacult, Cathy Gao, and Alleliah Nuguid meet poet Frank Bidart at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
Professors Mary Kinzie and John Keene celebrate 30 Years of creative writing at Northwestern
Professors Wendy Wall (Avalon Foundation Professor, left) and Reginald Gibbons (Frances Hooper Chair in the Arts and Humanities, right) at their inauguration, with Professor Christopher Herbert (Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, center)
English Department faculty and students gathering before the Department's Fall Collation
Professor Rebecca Johnson speaks at the English Department's Fall Collation

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