External Fellowships & Grants for Research
2024-25 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Shakespeare, Publics, and the Humanities
2024 Five Colleges Incorporated, Building Academic Leaders in the Humanities Program, NEH (declined)
2024 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Race, Place, and the Non-Human
2023 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Global Early Modern Trans Studies
2020 MassHumanities Grant, PI. Community Shakespeare
2019 MassHumanities Grant, PI. Community Shakespeare
2019 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Intersecting the Sexual: Modes of Early Modern Embodiment
2019 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: The Languages of Nature
2019 Short Term Residential Fellowship, The Huntington Library
2018 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Digging the Past: Writing and Agriculture in the Seventeenth Century
2016 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Visualizing English Print
2013 Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowship in Renaissance England (4 months). The Huntington Library
2011 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant. PI. (2011-2014)
2012 Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Symposium on the English and Dutch in the Early Modern World. Co-applicant:
Kristina Bross (2012)
2011 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences Grant. Co-applicant:
Nicholas Terpstra (2011)
2010 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Crossroads of Amsterdam
2008 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Residential Fellow (4 months). The Huntington Library
2006 Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Research Fellow in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. University of Warwick, UK
2006 Travel Grant. Newberry Consortium for Renaissance Studies. The Newberry Library
2004 Travel Grant. Newberry Consortium for Renaissance Studies. The Newberry Library
2003 Travel Grant. Newberry Consortium for Renaissance Studies. The Newberry Library
Internal Fellowships & Grants for Research
2023 Interdisciplinary Research Grant, Anthropocene Lab, UMass Amherst. ($46,100) (2023)
Co-applicants: Malcolm Sen, Thad Miller, Sandy Litchfield, Robert DeConto, Regine Spector
2018 Five College Consortium Lecture Fund, ‘Shakespeare and the African Diaspora’
2016 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC.
2015 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC.
2014 Research Competitiveness Fund. Office of the Vice-Principal Research, UTSC.
2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC.
2010 Jackman Humanities Institute, Working Group Grant. Early Modern Exiles. Co-lead with Nicholas Terpstra. University of Toronto.
(2010-2011& 2011-2012)
2011 Jackman Humanities Institute, Program for the Arts Grant. Between Worlds: Robert Daborne’s A Christian Turn’d Turke (1612),
performance. University of Toronto
2011 Research Grant. Office of the Vice-Principal Research, UTSC
2011 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC
2010 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC
2009 Co-curricular Initiatives Project Grant, Office of Arts and Events Programming, UTSC. Conversations in the Humanities,
Faculty Speaker Series (2009-2010)
2008 Connaught New Faculty Start-Up Grant. Connaught Foundation. University of Toronto
2008 New Faculty Research Grant. Department of Humanities, UTSC
2006 Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellow. University of Michigan (2006-2007)
2006 Institute for the Humanities Graduate Student Fellowship. University of Michigan (declined)
2005 Rackham Humanities Research Dissertation Fellowship. University of Michigan (2005-2006)
2005 Rackham Graduate School Summer Research Travel Grant. University of Michigan
2004 Rackham Humanities Research Candidacy Fellowship. University of Michigan
2004 Rackham/Hewlett/International Institute International Travel Grant. University of Michigan
2004 Grant-in-Aid, Women’s Studies Department, University of Michigan
2003 English Department Summer Funding Fellowship. University of Michigan (2003, 2004, 2005, & 2006)
2003 English Department Dissertation Research Grant. University of Michigan
2003 Center for European Studies Summer Research Grant. University of Michigan
Research Awards & Honors
2011 Connaught New Researcher Award. University of Toronto.
2008 Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention
2006 John D’Arms Graduate Student Award in the Humanities
2004 John D’Arms Graduate Student Award in the Humanities
2000 English Department’s nomination for the Graduate School Distinguished Masters Thesis Award, University of Missouri-Columbia
1995 Summa cum laude with highest departmental honors, Vassar College
1995 Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
Teaching Awards & Grants
2019 Finalist for the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Fall)
2018 Outstanding Staff Award. Center for Multicultural Advancement and Student Success, University of Massachusetts Amherst (April)
2018 Nomination for the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Spring)
2018 Teaching Enhancement Grant, Centre for Teaching and Learning, UTSC. Shakespeare in Performance
2011 Teaching Enhancement Grant, Centre for Teaching and Learning, UTSC. Shakespeare in Context
2009 Teaching Enhancement Grant, Centre for Teaching and Learning, UTSC. Imagined Communities of Early Modern England, 1500-1700
2014 David and Linda Moscow Prize for Excellence in Teaching English Composition. Department of English, University of Michigan
2004 English Department’s nomination for the university-wide Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of Michigan.
2000 Green Chalk Award. Awarded by the University of Missouri-Columbia College of Arts and Sciences to a graduate instructor for
excellence in teaching.