Department of English Faculty
UB English faculty are highly published, award-winning teachers, writers, and scholars.
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Named Chairs
- Edward H. Butler Professor of English
- David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters
- McNulty Chair in the Poetics Program
- James Agee Professor of American Culture
Distinguished Professorships
- 4 SUNY Distinguished Professors
- 2 SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professors
- 1 UB Distinguished Professor
Chancellor Awards
- 7 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 2 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
National and International Awards among current faculty
- ALA/AAUP “Best of the Best from University Presses” Award
- American Anthropological Association President’s Award
- BBC Radio 4 “Book of the Week” (serialized broadcast)
- Beatrice White Book Prize for scholarly work in English literature before 1590
- Chevalier, National Order of Merit (France)
- Chevalier, Arts and Letters (France)
- Dorothy Doyle Lifetime Achievement Award, PEN New Mexico
- Florence Howe Award for Feminist Studies, the Women’s Caucus of MLA
- George Freedley Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association
- Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies, one of the top Renaissance scholars in the world under 40
- Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Award
- PEN Translation Prize
- Rhetoric Society of America Book Award
- Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for Literature
- Ross Winterowd Award for Most Outstanding Book in Composition Theory
- Royal Society of Literature/Jerwood Award for Non-fiction
- Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography
- Society for Humanistic Anthropology’s Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing
International Fellowships
- 2 Fundacion Valparaiso (residency in Spain)
- 2 Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Fellowship (Germany)
- Kulturwissenschaftliches Istitut Fellowship (Germany)
- Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Skirbal Fellow (England)
- Oxford University, Rothermere American Institute Fellow (England)
- Simon Dubnow Institut, Gastwissenschaftler Fellow (Germany)
Major National Fellowships & Awards
- 3 ACLS Fellowships, one at the New York Public Library
- 2 American Philosophical Society awards
- American Antiquarian Society Fellowship
- 3 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships
- Charles Warren Center in US History Fellowship
- Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture Residential Fellow
- Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Award
- Fulbright Lectureship (American Literature)
- Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis
- 5 (current), 17 (total) Guggenheim Fellowships
- Huntington Library Research Fellowship
- 8 NEH Research Fellowships
- 3 NEA Fellowships
- NEA, Folk Arts Program
- Newberry Library Research Fellowship
- 3 Society for the Humanities Fellowships from Cornell University
- 3 Radcliffe Institute Fellowships
SUNY/UB Awards Teaching Awards and Fellowships to current faculty
- College of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Geoffrey Marshall Mentoring Award
- 5 Milton Plesur Awards for Excellence in Teaching
- New York State and UUP Excellence Award
- Pan-Hellenic Council Chi Omega Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 2 Provost’s Sustained Achievement Awards
- Teaching Excellence Award, Golden Key National Honor Society
- 4 UB Gender Institute Research Awards
- 11 UB Humanities Institute Fellowships
- 17 UUP Individual Development Awards
- 9 UUP Professional Development Awards
Teaching Awards at Other Institutions
- Kaneb Center Award for Excellence in Teaching (Notre Dame)
- University of Illinois List of Excellent Teachers
- Wig Distinguished Professor Award for Teaching (Pomona)
Foundation Grants recently awarded to the Department
- Baird Foundation Grant
- Higgins Foundation
- L. J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation
- Margaret L. Wendt Foundation
- Margaret Wendt Foundation Grant
- Oishei Foundation Grant
- Robert and Patricia Colby Foundation
Recent Major Awards to Emeritus Faculty
- Academy of American Poets Fellow
- Bollingen Prize for Poetry
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- MacArthur Fellow
- MLA Ruth Lilly Prize
- National Institute of Arts and Letters Award
- NEA Fellowship
- Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
- Rockefeller Study Center Fellowship (Italy)
- SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities