James Dawes

Macalester College

• Associate Professor, English
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Expertise

• American literature
• Countercultures
• Human rights
• Literary and language theory
• Violence and trauma
• Literature and philosophy

Honors & Awards

• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Junior Faculty Fellow
• Lilly Fellow, Macalester College (received Lilly Course Development Award, Fall 2001)
• William F. Milton Fund Recipient, 2001 (a $24,000 research grant from the Harvard Medical School to fund research in language theory)
• Mellon Dissertation Finishing Year Fellowship, 1997-1998
• Dexter Traveling Fellowship, Summer 1997
• Distinguished Teaching Awards: Spring 1996, Fall 1996, Spring 1997
• Member of the Derek Bok Center's Senior Teaching Fellows Program, 1996-1997 (a workshop for teaching fellows in the arts and sciences who received the highest ratings in University-wide evaluations; met biweekly to research pedagogical techniques and to promote the quality of teaching at Harvard through such initiatives as the Senior Teaching Fellows Mentoring Program)
• Fellow in the John F. Kennedy School of Government Program in Ethics, 1994-1995 (fully funds one year of independent research; Fellows work in association with distinguished academics in the fields of law, business, medicine, and the humanities)
• Mellon Fellowship for Summer Research, 1995
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1994-1998
• English Prize Fellowship, 1992-1994
• Thouron Scholarship, 1991-1992 (academic/diplomatic scholarship designed to foster Anglo-American relations; fully funds one year of post-graduate study)