When she’s not writing narrative non-fiction, Catherine is a Professor of English and an affiliate of the Russian, East-European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
AWARDS & HONORS (selected)
Liverpool University Press Award for Outstanding Journal Reviewer, 2019
Residency at Noëpe Literacy Arts Center, May 2016
Guggenheim Fellow 2014
Center for Advanced Studies Fellow, University of Illinois, 2014
University Research Board, competitive internal grant, 2011 and 2012
University Scholar: Three year appointment recognizing exceptional University of Illinois faculty, 2007-2010
David H. Russell Award, National Council of Teachers of English (for Literacy and Racial Justice)
CCCCs Outstanding Book Award (for Literacy and Racial Justice)
Mina P. Shaughnessy Award, Modern Language Association (for Literacy and Racial Justice)
W. Ross Winterowd Award, Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition (for Literacy and Racial Justice)
Fulbright Research Grant, Slovak Republic, 2003
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students (numerous semesters)
Brown v. Board of Education Jubilee Commemoration Grant, competitive internal grant, University of Illinois, 2003
Richard L. Braddock Award, 1998 (for outstanding article in College Composition and Communication)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
American History
Disability Studies
Film/Visual Culture
Rhetoric
Women’s Lives
Writing Studies