Awards
SCU's Redwood Yearbook Faculty Spotlight (Commentary from former students)
2024
SCU Sustainability Champion Award, Faculty Co-Awardee with Matt Driscoll
2019
Frank Conley Scholarship Recipient, Fishtrap Gathering of Writers
2014
Bryn Lunde Memorial Scholarship Recipient, Fishtrap Gathering of Writers
2013
Mara Steffey Outstanding Graduate Scholar, San Jose State University
2009
Dean's List, SJSU
2007-09
Dean's List, Loyola Marymount University
2003-07
Outstanding Honors Scholar of the Year, LMU
2003-07
Presidential Scholarship, LMU
2003-07
Additional LMU Awards:
Presidential Citation
Community Service "Passion Award"
English Scholar of the Year
Edgar D. Cahn Scholarship
Blenkiron Award & Honorarium
2007
Grants
SJSU’S AANAPISI Course Release
(2015)
One-class course release from the AANAPISI grant (Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution) to help enrich the pedagogical techniques of the SJSU English Department. Research includes a study of lower-division Composition essay assignments.
(2017-2020)
SCU’s Collaborative for Teaching Innovation
2019-20: “Linking Up the Bay: Creating a Day of Sharing for Multimodal Resources.”
$4600 internal year-long grant with collaborators Robin Tremblay McGaw and Kristin Conard to attend ATXPO conference and winter day-long Bay Area multimodal discussion for university educators
2018-19: “LinkingOut: Sharing Digital Rhetoric and Multimodal Projects from SCU to the Jesuit Web”
$4600 internal year-long grant with collaborators Robin Tremblay McGaw and Kristin Conard to create a website of multimodal resources from SCU and other Jesuit universities
2017-18: “LinkedUp: Creating a Collaborative Space for the English Department”
$4600 internal year-long grant with collaborators Robin Tremblay McGaw and Kristin Conard to implement and study English Department multimodal projects
English Department Brown Bag Presentations: February and March 2018
SCU’s Penstemon Project 2.0
(2019)
“Creating A New CTW Theme: Tamed and Untamed California."
$1,000 grant with SCU collaborator Matt Driscoll to attend a one-day workshop for selected West Coast educators on creating environmentally-themed curriculum for college classrooms. Grant included a follow-up lesson plan assignment and Faculty Collaborative Café talk at SCU.
Bannan Grant
Santa Clara University (2021)
“Aligning Advanced Writing & Social Justice Curriculum Across Engineering & English”
$5000 collaborative grant between English/Engineering faculty members as well as Andrew Carlos, Head of Research, Outreach & Inclusion in the Library; and Ricardo Padilla, the Programs Director for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in STEM, to unify expectations and practices for “ENGL 181: Engineering Communications” so that it aligns with the existing writing curriculum in the School of Engineering, DEI aims in English and Engineering, and best practices in information literacy.