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Education and Awards
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Stanford University, Department of English, January 1987
M.F.A. University of Iowa Writers Workshop, June 1977
M.A. Northwestern University, Department of English, June 1972
B.A. Oberlin College, June 1971
HONORS AND AWARDS (SELECTED):
2008-present Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English, University of Michigan
2011 Doctor of Humane Letters, Honorary Degree, Illinois Wesleyan University
2011 Michigan Humanities Award
2010 Pushcart Prize (Poetry)
2010 Visiting Mackey Chair, Beloit College
2009 Bogliasco Fellowship, Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities, Bogliasco, Italy
2008-10 Mellon Foundation Grant, Summer Dissertation Seminars in the Humanities
2008 Creative Arts Residency, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Bellagio, Italy
2003-08 Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professorship, College of Literature, Science and the Arts,
University of Michigan
2008 Pushcart Prize (Poetry)
2007 Finalist, National Book Award in Poetry
2006 Visiting Hurst Professor, Washington University
2004-05 John Rich Professor, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan
2003 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
2003 University Press Book Award (University of Michigan Press)
2003 Pushcart Prize (Poetry)
2003 Elliston Poet-in-Residence, University of Cincinnati
2002-06 Senior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows
2002 Academy Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2001-02 Guggenheim Fellowship (awarded 2000)
2000 Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, University of Michigan
2000 Michigan Humanities Award
2000 Irene Samuel Memorial Prize: Contributor to the winning volume Milton and the
Imperial Vision (Duquesne 1999)
1998 Special Mention, Pushcart Prize (Poetry)
1997 Finalist, Lenore Marshall Prize (for the best book of poetry published in the United States
during the previous calendar year), Academy of American Poets
1997 Finalist, The Poets Prize (for the best book of poetry published in the United States
during the previous calendar year)
1996-97 A. Bartlett Giamatti Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan
1996 Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan
1994 Creative Artist Grant, Arts Foundation of Michigan
1994 Pushcart Prize (poetry)
1993-94 Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Princeton, New Jersey
1993 Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan
1992 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
1992 Isabel MacCaffrey Award, Spenser Society of America
1992 Consuelo Ford Award, Poetry Society of America
1992 Research Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan
1992 Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan
1991-94 William Wilhartz Endowed Professorship for Junior Faculty, University of Michigan
1991-92 Mellon Fellowship, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
1991 Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan
1991 Levinson Prize, Poetry magazine
1991 Faculty Summer Fellowship, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies,
University of Michigan
1987 Alden Dissertation Prize, Stanford University
1985 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
1982-84 Ingram Merrill Grant (Poetry)
1982-83 Mabelle McLeod Lewis Fellowship (Dissertation)
1981-82 Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities (Dissertation)
1980-81 Gilchrist Potter Graduate Fellowship (Oberlin College Alumni Dissertation Grant)
1980 Clarence Urmy Award for Poetry, Stanford University
