Associate Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Master of Liberal Arts Program of the University's Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies.

Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a Sawyer Seminar, "Around 1948: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Global Transformation," which featured participation from other University faculty; she was also named a senior fellow of the School for Criticism and Theory at Cornell.

the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, served as associate editor on Art Spigelman's MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus (Panetheon, 2011).

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, Creative Writing, and the College, edited and translated Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli (University of Chicago Press, 2012) for which she received the Raiziss de Palchi Book Award from the Academy of American Poets. She also recieved three residency grants from iLand, the Millay Colony Group, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Professor of Practice in the Arts in English Language and Literature, Creative Writing, and the College, published The Ode and the Gate of Gathering (Crater Press, 2011).

Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, won the 2011 Albion Book Prize for her 2010 book Living Liberalism: Practical Citizenship in Victorian Britain and received the University's Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring.

the Helen A. Regenstein Professor in English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, and the College, received the MLA Prize for Distinguished Scholarly Edition for Elizabeth I: Translations, 1544–1589, which he coedited with Janel Mueller, the William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in English Language and Literature and the College.