Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor Fellowship, School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, Spring 2014.
Fellow, Center for Research into the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, Easter term, 2010.
Visiting Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge University, Easter term, 2010.
Kayden Research and Publication Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2009.
European Union Commission, Washington, DC. 3-year grant to establish a European Union Center of Excellence at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Co-PI. ($450,000), 2008-2011.
Leadership Education and Promotion Award, University of Colorado at Boulder, spring 2007.
Senior Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2002-2003.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Grant, 1998.
Recognition for Excellence in Teaching, Committee on Learning and Academic Support, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2001.
Honorable Mention for Silent Urns: Romanticism, Hellenism, Modernity, Harry Levin Prize for books in literary history and criticism published 1999-2001, American Comparative Literature Association, 2001.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, 1990-91.