Nonfiction writing and the research essay; creative nonfiction; journalism; business and technical writing; twentieth-century and contemporary British and British commonwealth literature, especially the novel; Anglophone, World English, and transatlantic literature; postcolonial and colonial literature; Postmodernism and Modernism; creative writing, especially fiction

Faculty Senate Dissertation-Year Fellowship ($25,000 for excellence in scholarly achievement and outstanding performance in teaching), University of Virginia, 2008-2009

Double Hoo Research Grant ($5,000 designed to fund original research projects created by pairs of graduate and undergraduate students; traveled to and conducted on-site research about memorials in England, Thailand, and the United States, contributing toward my dissertation), University of Virginia, 2005

Selected as a Leadership Fellow for the Faculty Leadership Program, Brown University, 2025-2026

Selected as a Provost’s Faculty Teaching Fellow, one of six faculty Fellows chosen from across Brown to promote innovation among Brown’s teaching, learning, and writing communities through work with the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University, 2020-2023

Master of Arts ad eundem degree awarded at Brown’s Commencement on May 28, 2017 (awarded to professors, associate professors, and senior lecturers who hold no other Brown degree; recipients’ names are then carried on the rolls of the University as honorary alumni/ae), Brown University, 2017

Comfort and Urry Prize (for leadership, career advising, and motivation of students), CareerLAB, Brown University, 2015

Faculty Senate Dissertation-Year Fellowship (for excellence in scholarly achievement and outstanding performance in teaching), University of Virginia, 2008-2009

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Virginia, 2007

Dr. Frank Finger Graduate Fellowship for Teaching, University of Virginia, 2005

Honoree for Seven Society Graduate Fellowship for Superb Teaching, University of Virginia, 2005

Jon Readey Spirit Award (given by the University of Notre Dame's Writing Center, inaugural recipient of an award that was created and established in my name), University of Notre Dame, 2003

"Striving for Excellence in Teaching" certificate, awarded by the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Notre Dame, 2001

Rotary Foundation Academic Year Ambassadorial Scholar (full funding to attend the University of Cambridge), 1999-2000

Modern Language Association

Ivy Plus Writing Consortium

American Comparative Literature Association

The International Society for the Study of Narrative

Northeastern Modern Language Association

Nonfiction writing, the academic essay, and the research essay

Creative nonfiction

Journalism

Business and technical writing

Twentieth-century and contemporary British and British commonwealth literature, especially the novel

Anglophone, World English, and transatlantic literature

Postcolonial and colonial literature

Postmodernism and Modernism

Creative writing, especially fiction