Faculty Internationalization Fund Award for travel to Università degli Studi di Bergamo. Bergamo, Italy. July 2016

University at Buffalo Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellow. 2013-14

Canadian American Studies Grant for Screening of You Don’t Like the Truth: Four Days in Guantánamo and Lecture by Prof. Brenda Longfellow, Department of Film, York University, Toronto, Canada. Fall 2012

UUP Professional Development Award for travel to the International Conference on Narrative.  Las Vegas, NV. March 2012

UUP Professional Development Award for travel to Popular & American Culture Associations National Conference. San Antonio, TX.  April 2011

UUP Professional Development Award for travel to Southwest / Texas Popular & American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, NM.  February 2010

UUP Professional Development Award for travel to Capital Normal University. Beijing, China. May and June 2009

UUP Professional Development Award for travel to New York—St. Petersburg Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies. St. Petersburg State University. St. Petersburg, Russia.  July 2006

SUNY Senior Fellow, Center on Russia and the United States. New York—St. Petersburg Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies. St. Petersburg State University.  St. Petersburg, Russia.  July 2005

Certificate of Recognition. Career Service’s Year after Graduation Survey of Baccalaureate, Graduate and Professional Schools, Class of 2003. 2005

Certificate of Recognition to Influential Faculty by University at Buffalo Class of 1999. Career Planning and Placement, Division of Student Affairs. 2002

Elizabeth Agee Prize for Best Manuscript in American Literary Studies. University of Alabama Press. 2000

Directory of American Scholars, 10^th Edition. 2000

Educational Technology Initiative Grant. Faculty of Arts & Letters. University at Buffalo.  1998

Ruth Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow. University at Buffalo. 1991

Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities. 1987-88

Clarence Urmy Award for Poetry. Stanford University. 1984

Phi Beta Kappa. Cornell University. 1981

Quill & Dagger Senior Honorary Society. Cornell University. 1981

The Attenzione Scholarship to the University of Siena, Italy. 1981