Awards

University of Minnesota Awards

Regents Professor

McKnight Land-Grant Professorship

McKnight Presidential Fellow

Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Education

Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education

President's Award for Outstanding Service

CLA Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award

CLA Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities

CLA Scholar of the College

Sara Evans Leadership Award

Faculty Research Awards

Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship (since 2005)

Provost’s Imagine Fund for Arts and Humanities

V. V. Ganeshananthan, 2018-2019
Katherine Scheil, 2017-2018
Elaine Auyoung, Nabil Matar, Nathaniel Mills, Jani Scandura, 2016-2017
Scandura, 2015-2016
Peter Campion, 2014-2015
Dan Philippon, Scandura, K. Scheil, 2013-2014
Timothy Brennan, Matar, Scandura, K. Scheil, 2012-2013
Brennan, Scandura, 2011-2012
Brennan, Scandura, K. Scheil, and Julie Schumacher, 2010-2011
Brennan, Siobhan Craig, K. Scheil, 2009-2010

Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship (since 2005)

Distinguished Educator Award, College of Continuing Education

Donald V. Hawkins Professor of English

Ruth Christie Distinguished Teaching Award for Faculty in English

Recent External Awards

Book Awards

V. V. Ganeshananthan, Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, Women's Prize for Fiction, and Asian Prize for Fiction for Brotherless Night, 2024

Aamina Ahmad, Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize from the UK Society of Authors, LA Times Book Prize's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and Best First Novel award from the Writers Guild of Great Britain for The Return of Faraz Ali, 2023, which also was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2022

Douglas Kearney, Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation and CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction for Optic Subwoof, 2023; Griffin Poetry Prize and Minnesota Book Award in Poetry for Sho, 2022

Julie Schumacher, Thurber Prize for American Humor for Dear Committee Members, 2015; Midwest Booksellers Choice for Fiction for Dear Committee Members, 2015; Minnesota Book Award in Young Adult Literature for The Book of 100 Truths, 2007

Andrew Elfenbein, Choice Outstanding Academic Book for Romanticism and the Rise of English, 2009

Andrew Scheil, John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America, for The Footsteps of Israel: Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England, 2008; book also received biennial Best First Book Prize (2005) of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS)

Fulbright Awards

Lifetime Achievement Awards

Josephine Lee, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Studies Program, 2025; Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, 2016

Nabil Matar, Advancement of Sciences Award in Comparative Literature and Literary Translation from the Kuwait Foundation, 2017

Timothy Brennan, Lifetime Achievement Award from South Asian Literatures Association for Contributions to South Asian Studies, 2014

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

Andrew Mellon Foundation

Jessica Horvath Williams, leadership team of Critical Disability Studies, 2024

Josephine Lee, Dan Philippon, and Jani Scandura, Global Midwest proposals via Institute for Advanced Study, 2014

Andrew Scheil, Mellon Foundation Grant: One of three principal investigators on a three-year grant to establish a “Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World” at the University of Minnesota, 2013; extended 2016 and 2019

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Research & Writing Fellowships

Douglas Kearney, McKnight Artist Fellowship in Poetry, 2022

Timothy Brennan, Camargo Foundation Residence, 2017; Mercator Professorship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2011

V. V. Ganeshananthan, American Academy Berlin Prize Residency, 2017; Human Rights Initiative Fund Faculty Research Award, 2017; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, 2014-2015; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 2014-2015; Yaddo Foundation Fellowship, 2012; MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2012

Kim Todd, Anderson Center Residency, 2016; Mesa Refuge Residency, 2012

Julie Schumacher, PEN/Hemingway Fellowship, 2015; Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency, 2011

Andrew Elfenbein, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2013-2014; American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, 2005-06; Howard Foundation Fellowship, 2005-06

Dan Philippon, Senior Fellow, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany, 2011-12

Katherine Scheil, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship, 2011; Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship, 2007-2008; Folger Shakespeare Library Grant, 2007

Amit Yahav, Lewis Walpole Library Visiting Research Fellowshp, Yale University, 2010

Peter Campion, Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature (Prix de Rome), American Academy in Rome, 2009-2010

Andrew Scheil, Friedrich Solmsen Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, 2008-2009

Liana Farber, Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, ACLS, 2008; Friedrich Solmsen Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, 2007

Nabil Matar, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Research Professor, Paris, June, 2008; British Academy Visiting Professorship, London, February 2006

Jani Scandura, American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, 2005-2006; Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, 2006

Other Awards

Douglas Kearney, Campbell Opera Librettist Prize, 2021; Best New Opera from the Music Critics Association Of North America, 2021, for Sweet Land (co-librettist); Cy Twombly Poetry Award, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2019

Nabil Matar, “Building Bridges Award,” Association of Muslim Social Scientists and Alwalid bin Talal Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 2012

Peter Campion, Editors Award for Reviewing, Poetry magazine, 2011; Larry Levis Reading Prize, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010; Pushcart Prize, 2008

Josephine Lee, Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans Leadership Award, 2006