Teaching Awards
The Department is proud of its superlative teaching as exemplified by the following list of professors and Ph.D. students who have received teaching awards.
Northwestern Faculty Honor Roll Award (2002)
Jay Grossman
Northwestern Faculty Honor Roll Award (2006)
Christopher Herbert
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (1974-75)
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (1982-83)
Wender-Lewis Research and Teaching Professor (2002)
John Keene
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (2005-06)
Mary Kinzie
Martin J. and Patricia Koldyke Professorship (1990-92)
Jules Law
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (2001-02)
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence (2007-10)
Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll (2008-09)
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
Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll (2001-02)
Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll (2002-03)
Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll (2003-04)
School of Continuing Studies Distinguished Teaching Award (2004-05)
James Friend Memorial Award in Literary Criticism (2006)
Carl S. Smith
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence (1994-97)
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (1979-80)
Julia Stern
Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence (2008-11)
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (1998-99)
Panhellenic Association Teaching Award (1999)
Associated Student Government Mortar Board Award (1992-93)
Glenn Sucich
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award (2008-09)
Wendy Wall
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (1997-98)
Associated Student Government Mortar Board Award (1992-93)
Wender-Lewis Research and Teaching Professor (1998-2001)
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Graduate Students
Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation
2009 - Hyun Jung Lee, Evil Genius: Victorian Popular Fiction as Moral Philosophy
2008 - Gayle Rogers, British Modernism and Ortega's Spanish Vanguard
Cosmopolitanism, Circulation, and Modernity, 1922-1939
2007 - Wen Jin, Rethinking Cultural Translation: Multiculturalism and Chinese American Transnational Literature
2007 - Dan Gleason, Seeing Imagism: A Poetics of Literary Visualization
2006 - William Huntting Howell, "A more perfect copy than heretofore": Imitation,
Emulation, and the Early American Literary Culture
2005 - Dana Bilsky, Tangled Skeins: Identification and Tantasmatic Genealogies of
Slavery in Narratives by Jacobs, Crafts, Wilson, and Keckley
2004 - Benjamin Pauley, The Common Class of Men: Law and the Lay Reader in the
Eighteenth-Century English Novel
2002 - Matthew Frankel, The Aesthetics of Citizenship: Race, Representation, and the American Sublime
2000 - Brad Deane, The Making of the Victorian Novelist: Authorship, Ideology, and the Mass Market
1999 - Claire Waters, Doctrine Embodied: Gender, Performance, and Authority in Late-Medieval Preaching
English Department Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award
2009 - Nathaniel Small
2008 - Elizabeth McCabe
English Department Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
2009 - Jacquelyn Murdock
2008 - Greg Laski
Weinberg College of Arts & Science Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award
2008 - Abram Van Engen
2007 - Christie Harner
2004 - Deana Greenfield
2003 - Coleman Hutchison (Ph.D. 2006)
2001 - Matthew Frankel (Ph.D. 2001)
2000 - Christopher Hager (Ph.D. 2003) & Eric LeMay (Ph.D. 2002)
