Scholarship and Biography

Examining 19th-century political oratory, asking how a political culture founded on dealmaking and compromise comes to terms with conflicts over moral issues where dealmaking and compromise seem to be easily discredited strategies.

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Honors

E.T. McLaughlin Prize
University of Oklahoma (United States, Norman) - UO, 1976
C.B. Tinker Prize
Yale University (United States, New Haven), 1977
Herson Scholarship
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority (United States, Washington D.C.), 1977
Mary Cady Tew Prize
Yale University (United States, New Haven), 1978
John A. Porter Fellowship
Yale University (United States, New Haven), 1982
Marver Bernstein Faculty Fellowship
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 1987
Grant
American Philosophical Society (United States, Philadelphia) - APS, 1996
Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 1996
Fellowship
American Council of Learned Societies (United States, New York) - ACLS, 1997
Fellowship
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (United States, New York), 1997
Jules and Frances Landry Prize for The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Louisiana State University (United States, Baton Rouge) - LSU, 1998
Ambassador Book Award
English Speaking Union (United States, Washington D.C.) - ESU, 1999
Norman Grant
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2006 - 2007
Twenty Five Years of Service at Brandeis
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2007
Paul Prosswimmer Professor of American Literature
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2013
Thirty Years of Service at Brandeis
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2013
Theodore and Jane Norman Awards for Faculty Scholarship
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2014

Organizational Affiliations

Paul E. Prosswimmer Professor of American Literature, Department of English, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Interdepartmental Program in American Studies, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Master of Arts Program in Comparative Humanities, Brandeis University

Education

Yale University
Ph.D.
Yale University
M.A.
Yale University
B.S.