Grants & Awards

Best Book of Literary Criticism, 2011-2012, awarded by the Cámara Nacional de la Industria Editorial Mexicana (CANIEM)

2010 University of Houston, Faculty Development Initiative Program (FDIP) for the Center for    the Americas and related programming and curricula, $21,500

2009 University of Houston, Martha Gano Houstoun Endowment Research Grant and The Small Grants Program Award (Subvention grants for La mirada exuberante: Barroco novomundista y literatura latinoamericana)

2008 University of Houston, Faculty Development Initiative Program (FDIP)

2007 John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professorship, University of Houston

2007 John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professorship, University of Houston

2007 The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction

The Harry Levin Prize for the best book in Comparative Literature published in 2005-2006, awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association

The Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, awarded by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University.

Honorable Mention, The Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for the outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures, awarded by the Modern Language Association

2006 The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction

Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year

2005 University of Houston, Faculty Development Initiative Program (FDIP)

2004 University of Houston, Martha Gano Houston Endowment Research Grant, and Small Grants Program Award

2001 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) University Research Fellowship

2000 University of Houston, Limited Grant in Aid (LGIA)

1998 Image and Memory: Photography from Latin America 1866-1994.

Best New Art Book, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Photographers

Photography Book of the Year, The Maine Photographic Workshops

Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1998.

1996 Phi Kappa Phi, Naitonal Academic Honors Society

1995 University of Houston Faculty Development Leave, Spring 1995; HFAC Summer Research Grant

1994 Greenwood Community Service Award

1992-3 Fulbright Senior Research/Lectureship, National Autonomosus University of Mexico, Mexico City

1990 University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award ($2500); Top Prof Award, Mortar Board; Outstanding Professor, Sigma Tau Delta, English Honors Society.

1990 American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant to Cambridge, England, July, 1990, for International Congress on "The Shadow of Spirit: Contemporary Western Thought and Its Religious Subtexts."

1990 Harvey L. Johnson Award for the best book published by a member of the Southwestern Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS), for translation of Enclosed Garden, by Angelina Muniz-Huberman (1988).

1989 Omicron Delta Kappa, National Leadership Honorary: elected to membership

1988 Harvey L. Johnson Book Prize, from the Southwestern Council of Latin American Studies for the translation of Enclosed Garden

1988 Sigma Tau Delta, National English Honors Society: Distinguished Service Award

1985 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Travel Grant to Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, for International Congress on Style as a Historical Category

1982-83 Fulbright Senior Research/Lectureship, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City

1982 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend

1981 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Research Grant, Spring Semester

1981 South Central Modern Language Association Research-Travel Grant to Mexico City