Teaching Excellence Award
The English department calls for nominations for its Teaching Excellence Award each spring.
The application process is now closed.
Qualifications and Nominations
- To be eligible, nominees must:
- Be Professional Track Faculty (lecturers, senior lecturers, or principal lecturers).
- Have taught in the English department for at least four consecutive regular semesters, inclusive of the current semester, with no minimum number of courses required. We do not count summer or winter courses.
- Must not have won this award within the last five years.
To nominate someone for this award, please email englmeo@umd.edu.
To Apply
Nominees should submit the following materials:
- One-page statement of teaching philosophy that includes evidence of a teaching innovation
- Curriculum vitae
- Single representative syllabus that includes the sequence of assignments
- The designation of two individual courses from fall 2022, spring 2023 and/or fall 2023, selected by the nominee and identified by semester and section, for which student course evaluations will be retrieved.
- Name and contact information for one reference who knows the nominee’s teaching abilities. We are not seeking letters of reference upfront, so please do not arrange to have them sent as part of the application process.
Application materials should be sent to englmeo@umd.edu by March 1, 2024.
Review of Applications
Submissions will be judged by a selection committee made up of a senior lecturer or a past award winner (after the first year), the associate chair, the vice-associate chair, the director of academic writing, and the director of professional writing.
Recognition will be awarded to two professional track faculty per year at the English department’s spring reception, with a $250 prize and a certificate of excellence.
Past Winners
2024: Aysha Jawed, Alan Montroso, Daune O'Brien
Honorable Mention: Liam Daley
2023: Ben Baker
2022: Sarah Dammeyer, Melvette Melvin Davis
2021: Mark Forrester, Adam Lloyd
2020: Peter Grybauskas, Alysia Sawchyn
2019: Caroline Wilkins, Blake Wilder
2018: Ross Angelella, John Kim
2017: Catherine Bayly, Maggie Ray
2016: Doug Kern, Justin Lohr, Marybeth Shea
2015: Alexandra Calloway, Lyra Hilliard