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2010 Teacher of the Year 2010 Kappa Delta Professor of the Month (April) 2008 Awarded (with Kelly Moffett) a $2,000 Art Meets Activism grant from Kentucky Foundation for Women (KFW) for work on Kentucky's Retreat for Women Writers (KRWW) 2007 $3,000 Art Meets Activism grant from KFW for KRWW 2006 Kappa Delta Professor of the Month (November)

2004 First Place, James Paul Brawner Expository Writing Contest, Graduate Division 2003-2004 Stephen F. Crocker Dissertation Fellowship 1998-2003 Stephen F. Crocker Scholarship 1999 Scholarship to attend West Virginia Writers' Workshop

1998 Second place, Kenneth Sonnenberg Poetry Award 1997 Undergraduate Summer Research Grant for work at Charles Olson Archives, University of Connecticut, Storrs 1997-1998 Eugenie Bauman Smith Creative Writing Scholarship

“The Difficulties of Studying Dickinson's Imagery after the Imagists,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Atlanta, GA, Nov. 5-7, 2010

"Myth and the Long Poem in Merrill's Sandover," James Merrill Conference, Stonington, CT, Aug. 14-16, 2009

Chaired panel “American Poetries and Musics” and delivered “Merrill and Wright: Spirituality in the Postmodern Long Poem,” Conference of Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY, Feb. 19-21, 2009

Organized and moderated a panel on Charles Wright and delivered “Pound’s Influence on the Poetics of Charles Wright,” National Poetry Foundation Conference on Poetry of the 70s, Orono, ME, June 11-15, 2008

“On Mysticism in Charles Wright’s Negative Blue,” Midwestern Conference on Language, Literature, and Media (MCLLM), DeKalb, IL, Mar. 30-31, 2007

"W.B. Yeats and Modern Poetry," Arête Society, Owensboro, KY, Jan. 25, 2007