Department Faculty’s Teaching and Mentoring Awards

Daniel Anderson

Chapman Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2003

Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2009
Bowman and Gordon Gray Term Chair for Distinguished Teaching, 2005-10
Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2003
Elected to UNC Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, 2000
The first University Professor of Distinguished Teaching "in recognition of career-long excellence and exceptional ability in teaching of undergraduates," 1995-98
Bowman and Gordon Gray Term Chair for Distinguished Teaching 1986-89
Nicholas Sago Outstanding Teacher Award, 1981
Standard Oil Foundation Award for Inspirational Undergraduate Teaching, 1973

Reid Barbour

Best Graduate Mentor, Department of English & Comparative Literature, 2009
Edward Kidder Graham Outstanding Faculty Award, 2004 
University of North Carolina Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 1999 
Students’ Undergraduate Teaching Award, UNC, 1999 
Senior Class Favorite Faculty, UNC, 1997 
Bowman and Gordon Gray Term Associate Professor, 1995-98 
Senior Class Favorite Faculty, 1995
Tanner Award for Undergraduate Teaching, 1990-91 
Senior Class Favorite Faculty (Superlative Award), 1990 

Inger Brodey

UNC Board of Governors and the Bank of America Distinguished Professorship in Honors, 2012
Chapman Family Teaching Award, 2011
Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2006

Michael Chitwood

Chapman Family Teaching Award, 2010

Marsha Collins

John L. Sanders Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching, 2000
Outstanding Faculty Woman Award from Women's Issues Network and Student Government, 1997-1998.

Pam Cooper

Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1996
University Professor of Distinguished Teaching, 2007-2010.
Two mentoring awards from the Association of Graduate English Students, 1999, 2005

Tyler Curtain

Sitterson Award for Undergraduate teaching, 2009

Jane Danielewicz

Hiskey Term Distinguished Professor of Undergraduate Research and Teaching
Chapman Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2006
Sitterson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2000
Chapman Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1998

Maria DeGuzman

Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2005

Eric Downing

Johnston Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2004

Rebecka Rutledge Fisher

Coleags Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award

Gregory Flaxman

Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Teaching and Mentoring, 2011
Coleags (Department Association of Graduate Students) Award for Mentoring PhD students, 2010
UNC Undergraduate Teaching Award (SUTASA), 2008
Association of Graduate English Students, Mentoring Award, 2007

Mary Floyd-Wilson

Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2006

Marianne Gingher

Bowman and Gordon Gray Term Chair for Distinguished Teaching, 2011-2016
Chapman Award for excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2008
Johnston Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2007
Chapman Award for excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2000

Darryl Gless

Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1983

Philip Gura

Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction, 2004

Susan Irons

Tanner Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2011
Joseph Flora Award (department) for Excellence in Teaching Literature, 2010

Joy Kasson

Women’s Leadership Council Mentoring Award, 2006
Johnston Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2002
Bowman and Gordon Gray Chair for Distinguished Teaching, 2000-05
Max Chapman Family Fellowship, Institute for Arts and Humanities, 2005
Bowman and Gordon Gray Chair for Distinguished Teaching, 1992-95
Chapman Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1998
Tanner Award for Undergraduate Teaching, 1991
Katherine Kennedy Carmichael Teaching Award, 1985

Ritchie Kendall

Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2001

Ted Leinbaugh

Student Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2011
Multiple Senior Class Superlative Faculty Awards
Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professorship, 1989-1992
Chapman Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997
Chapman Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1994

George Lensing

Chapman Family Award for Distinguished Teaching award, 2011
Bowman and Gordon Gray Professorship for Distinguished Teaching, 2002-07
John Sanders Award for Teaching and Service, 2001
Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1984

Megan Matchinske

Graduate mentoring awards (department), 2011, 2000

Michael McFee

Women's Leadership Council Faculty Mentoring Award, 2010
Students’ Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2004
Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professorship, 2000-05
James M. Johnston Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1998
Chapman Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1995
Students’ Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1994

John McGowan

Sitterson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2005
Award for Excellence in Teaching Post-Baccalaureate Students, 2002
Chapman Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1999

Jeanne Moskal

M.A. Mentoring Award, given by Association of Graduate English Students, UNC-CH, 2003.
Ph.D. Mentoring Award, given by Association of Graduate English Students, UNC-CH, 2001.
Mentioned as an outstanding UNC-CH faculty member (one of ten mentioned) in The Young Woman’s Guide to the Top Colleges by Robert Mitchell (New York: John Wiley, 1998), p. 300.
Named a "Favorite Faculty" Member of the Senior Class of 1997, one of 57 among c. 3800 UNC-CH faculty, 1997.
Nomination for Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction, UNC-CH, 1997.
One of the UNC-CH’s "Top Ten Professors" by Granville Towers, a dormitory with 1300 residents, 1987.

Jim Seay

Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor, 1996-99

Bland Simpson

Bowman & Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professorship, 2006-2011
Chapman Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2006
Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2004
Chapman Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1998

Todd Taylor

Friday Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2004
Chapman Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2002

James Thompson

Johnston Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2003
AGES mentoring awards, 2009 or 2008.

Jane Thrailkill

Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor 2012-17.
Semifinalist for the Board of Governor's award, 2011.
Tanner Award for Undergraduate Teaching 2008.
AGES mentoring award in 2001