Awards

National Awards: 

Amos Distinguished Chair Award, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2025. 

Harper Fund Travel Award, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2021

Fellow, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshop, 2021

NEH Grant, “Boom or Bust: A Study and Collection of Energy Narratives,” National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Hispanic-Serving Institutions, $83,799, 2016-2018 (Co-Primary Investigator with Rebecca Day Babcock and Jason Lagapa), UTPB

Best Fiction Award, Puerto del Sol, 2015

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Other Awards: 

Faculty Senate, Fund A Award for travel to Savannah, GA (Sept. 2025) and Atlanta, GA (Nov. 2025), Mississippi University for Women, 2025

Distinguished Dissertation Award for Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Arkansas, 2023

Claude W. Faulkner Award for Teaching & Research Excellence, University of Arkansas, 2021

Excellence in Research Award, Graduate and Professional Student Congress, 2021

James J. Hudson Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Arkansas, 2020-2021

Vance/Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Award, University of Arkansas, 2020-2021

Ben Kimpel Award, University of Arkansas, 2019-2020

Graduate Assistantship, University of Arkansas, 2017-2021

Doctoral Academy Fellowship, University of Arkansas, 2017-2021

Timothy W. Adams Thesis Award, University of Louisiana, 2012

Lyceum Grant, University of Louisiana, 2011

Graduate Assistantship, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2010-2012

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Working on two grants funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities has allowed me to do public-facing humanities work that is valuable both within and outside of the university.

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Grants

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Program Manager, NEH Summer Institute for K-12 Educators 2020-present

• “Remaking Monsters and Heroines: Adapting Classic Literature for Contemporary Audiences” at University of Arkansas: Institute Dates: 2020 (Institute postponed until June 2021) 
• Organized a competitive review process. 
• Along with co-directors, I worked with K-12 educators and guest speakers to organize and coordinate a two-week, intensive summer institute.
• Institute Website: https://monstersandheroines.uark.edu/

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Project Coordinator, NEH Grant Project: “Boom or Bust” 2015-2017

• “Boom or Bust: A Collection and Study of Energy Narratives” at University of Texas- Permian Basin
• Award Amount: $83,799 for Hispanic-Serving Institutions 
• Co-Primary Investigator, with Rebecca Day Babcock and Jason Lagapa 
• Coordinated and publicized a speaker series, monthly book clubs in three cities, and writing workshops. 
• Archive Website: https://www.boomorbustpermianbasin.org/

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Lead Investigator, S.A.V.E. Affordable Textbook Grant 2015-2016

• Headed a committee who were awarded a grant to create two textbooks for use by first-year composition students. Editor of both books.

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