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)