Faculty Awards
University of Minnesota Awards
- Regents Professorship
- Madelon Sprengnether, 2008
- Patricia Hampl, 1997
- McKnight Land-Grant Professorship
- Ray Gonzalez, 1999-2001
- Edelstein-Keller Distinguished Professor
- Charles Baxter
- Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education
- Madelon Sprengnether, 2003
- Morse-Alumni Award for outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education
- Julie Schumacher, 2009
- CLA Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award
- Patricia Hampl, 1984
- CLA Scholar of the College
- Ray Gonzalez, 2006-2009
- Madelon Sprengnether, 1992-1995
- Patricia Hampl, 1988-1991
- CLA Dr. Matthew Stark Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Faculty Award
- Patricia Hampl, 2013
- Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship
- M.J. Fitzgerald, 2001, 2006
- Provost's Imagine Fund for Arts and Humanities
- Peter Campion, 2014-2015
- Dan Philippon, 2013-2014
- M.J. Fitzgerald, 2012-2013
- Ray Gonzalez, Julie Schumacher, 2010-2011
- Ray Gonzalez, 2009-2010
- Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship
- Madelon Sprengnether, spring 2006
- Distinguished Educator Award, College of Continuing Education
- Julie Schumacher, 2008
- Distinguished Women Scholars Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Madelon Sprengnether, 2005
Recent External Awards
- Book Awards
- Julie Schumacher, Thurber Prize for American Humor for Dear Committee Members, 2015; Minnesota Book Award in Young Adult Literature for The Book of 100 Truths, 2007
- Charles Baxter, Minnesota Book Award in General Nonfiction for The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot, 2008
- Patricia Hampl, Minnesota Book Award in Memoir for The Florist's Daughter, 2008
- Ray Gonzalez, Latino Heritage Award for Best Book of Poetry for The Religion of Hands, 2006
- Fulbright Awards
- Dan Philippon, Fulbright Core Research/Teaching Award, University of Turin and University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy, 2012
- Lifetime Achievement Awards
- Ray Gonzalez, Lifetime Achievement Award in Latino Literature from Con Tinta, 2015
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
- Peter Campion, 2011-2012
- Research & Writing Fellowships
- Patricia Hampl, Yaddo Foundation, 2014; Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, 2009
- Dan Philippon, Senior Fellow, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany, 2011-2012
- Julie Schumacher, Bellagio Fellowship, 2011
- Peter Campion, Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature (Prix de Rome), American Academy in Rome, 2009-2010
- Other Awards
- Patricia Hampl, Honorary Doctor of Letters (honoris causa), St. Bonaventure University, NY, 2013; Denise Levertov Award, Image magazine, 2012; elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007
- Charles Baxter, 25th Anniversary Rea Award for the Short Story, 2011; American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit for Short Story, 2007
- Peter Campion, Editors Award for Reviewing, Poetry magazine, 2011; Larry Levis Reading Prize, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010; Pushcart Prize, 2008