Honors
- Plenary Speaker at and co-director of the 14th International Willa Cather Seminar, Flagstaff, AZ. June 16-22.
- Plenary Speaker and Staff Member. Willa Cather: A Writer’s Worlds. The 11th International Willa Cather Seminar. Paris & Provence, France. June 24-July 1, 2007.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Explanatory Notes and Historical Essay for the Scholarly Edition of Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark. January-June 2002.
- William L. Mayo Professorship, Fall 2000-present. (I received an annual stipend of $2,500 for the first three years of this lifetime designation.
- H. M. Lafferty Distinguished Faculty Award for Scholarship and Creative Activity, April 2000
- Seminar Fellow. Eighth International Willa Cather Seminar. Nebraska City, Nebraska, June 2000.
- Seminar Fellow. Spiritual Frontiers 2000 Conference. Provo, Utah. March 2000.
Seminar Fellow, Seventh International Willa Cather Seminar. Winchester, VA. June 1997. - Honors Professor of the Year Award, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 1997.
- Alumna Ambassador [Honored Alumna Selected Annually by Student's Department], Department of Literature & Languages, East Texas State University, Spring 1994.
- Best Paper Award for "John Smith: An American Columbus?" Presented to American Studies Association of Texas, Denton, TX, Nov 20, 1992.
TACT Teacher of the Year Award, 1992. - Campus Nominee for Piper Professor, 1989, 1990.
- Nominated for Honors Professor of the Year, 1986.
- Reception for publication of Contexts: Writing and Reading. 2nd ed., given by Houghton Mifflin publishers at South Central Modern Language Association, Arlington, Texas, October 1988.
- Northeast Area Council of Teachers of English Creative Teaching Award, Spring 1979 (with Communication Skills Center staff).
