Awards & fellowships

Faculty Development Grant, Spelman College, 2024

Candace Benefiel Commitment to Vampire Scholarship Award, Popular Culture Association Vampire Studies Area, 2023

Stake & Cross Award for Best Critical Analysis, Popular Culture Association Vampire Studies Area, 2022

Carnegie Corporation & Rockefeller Foundation Distinguished Research Scholar, 2021-22

Presidential Award in Scholarship, Spelman College, 2021

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Award, 2021

UNCF/Mellon Faculty Development Grant, 2019

National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant, 2018-19

Faculty Development Grant, Spelman College, 2018

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Duke University, 2015

Lore Metzger Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, International Conference on Romanticism, 2014

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, 2014

Summer Research Fellowships, Duke University, 2015, 2012

Duke TIP Research Fellowship, Duke University, 2013

Summer Research Fellowship, Bucknell University, 2008

Fulbright-Hays Heritage Speakers Study and Research Grant, Moscow State University, 2005