Each spring the following graduate awards, accompanied by a small monetary consideration, are given:

Bertram and Ruth Davis Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Career

Russell Reaver Award for Outstanding Dissertation in American Literature or Folklore

Bertram and Ruth Davis Award for Outstanding Dissertation in English Literature, Critical Theory, Linguistics, or Rhetoric and Composition

George M. Harper Award for Outstanding Graduate Writing: Essay Award and Outstanding Graduate Writing: Creative Writing

Ann Durham Award for Outstanding MFA Thesis

John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Award

Fred L. Standley, Robert O. Lawton, Marian Bashinski, and Bryan Hall Awards for Excellence in Teaching (4 awards)