2017 Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2019-2020)
2017 Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard (2017-2018)
2017 Fellowship, National Humanities Center (declined)
2014 Michigan Humanities Award
2014-2015 UMS Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellow
2011 John Dewey Award for Undergraduate Teaching, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan
2009 University Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Michigan
2009 Donald Gray Prize for Best Essay in Victorian Studies published in 2008,
North American Victorian Studies Association
2007-2008 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities
2007 (with Kathryn Dominguez) Gilbert Whitaker Award for the Improvement of Teaching, University of Michigan
2005 English Department Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Michigan
2003-2004 Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences,  Stanford, CA