Awards & Scholarships

University Research Fund Competition Award Recipient, $7,000, May 2020.

Received an honorary mention from the Canadian Association of American Studies for best article published in CRAS in 2018 for “The Missionary Position: The American Roots of Northrop Frye’s Peaceable Kingdom.” The Journal of Canadian Studies 52.2 (2018): 361-380. 

https://utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/jcs.2017-0029.r2

University Research Fund Competition Award Recipient, $7,000, March 2018.

SSHRC Insight Development Grant, awarded $45,052 over two years with one-year extension, June 2014-2017. 

University Research Fund Competition Award Recipient, $5,300, March 2014. 

Co-editor and co-applicant for Studies in Canadian Literature, awarded a SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals grant of $90,000 (maximum allowable), June 2011, 2011-2014. 

University Merit Award Recipient, $5,000, May 2011. 

University Research Fund Competition Award Recipient, $5,520, February 2011. 

Busteed Publication Fund Award Recipient, $500, March 2010.

Co-editor and co-applicant for Studies in Canadian Literature, awarded a SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals grant of $90,000 (maximum allowable), October 2008, 2008-2011. 

University Research Fund Competition Award Recipient, $2,000, December 2007. 

SSHRC Research Grant, awarded $40,822 over five years, April 2002-2007. 

SSHRC Seed Grant Award ($5000), awarded March 2000. 

UNB New Scholars Research Award ($3500), awarded November 1999. 

Co-investigator on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant totalling $25,000, awarded June 1999 to complete a book on Thomas King with Professor Priscilla Walton (Principal Investigator). 

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellowship, September 1998 to June 1999. 

Fulbright Doctoral Scholarship, The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program, March to July 1998. 

School of Criticism and Theory: scholarship recipient and participant in two courses taught by Professor Judith Butler and Professor Diana Fuss, June to July 1995. 

John Macrory Fellowship, University of Toronto, May 1995. 

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, April 1994 to August 1998. 

Moyse Travelling Scholarship and Dora Forsyth Prize for English, McGill University, June 1993. 

1993-94 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, April 1993.