Faculty Awards

Local:
• 2008: Finalist for Teaching Excellence Award, URI Foundation
• 2007: Named Fellow of the John Hazen White Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service, URI Nomination for Teaching Excellence Award, Honorable Mention, URI Foundation
• 2006: Nomination for Teaching Excellence Award, Honorable Mention, URI Foundation

Local:
• 2008: The University of Rhode Island Excellence Award for Graduate Mentoring

Local:
• 2007: PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, PEN America, Emerging Poet of Promise Finalist, Paterson Poetry Prize, Passaic Community College, Best Book of Poetry
• 2006: Finalist, Thom Gunn Award, Publishing Triangle, Best Book of Poetry

National:
• 2008-2009: Newberry Library National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (declined)

Local:
• 2009: Recipient of the 2009 AAUP Marilyn Sternberg Award. The Sternberg Award is given annually by the national American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to the “AAUP member who best demonstrates a concern for human rights, courage, persistence, political foresight, and imagination. The Award recognizes an AAUP member who has demonstrated extraordinary commitment to the work of the AAUP, the principles of academic freedom, and to human rights and social justice more generally.”
• 2008: In recognition of her on-going commitment to equity and the advancement of women at URI, Dr. Donnelly received the University of Rhode Island Association for Professional and Academic Women (APAW) Woman of the Year Award for 2008 APAW annually recognizes a URI woman for her efforts to advance the mission of APAW. Its mission includes: providing opportunities for URI women to meet and work together across departmental, college and divisional lines, and to sponsor informal meetings on topics of interest to women.
• 2007: The University of Rhode Island Outstanding Outreach Award for her work as co-founder, with the Rhode Island District Court, of the Rhode Island Chapter of the nationally recognized and highly acclaimed Changing Lives Through Literature Program (CLTL).
• Recipient of the 2007 Dorcas Place Community Partner Award in recognition of her work with and support of Dorcas Place Adult and Family Learning Center which provides educational opportunities for low-income Rhode Islanders.

National:
• 2008: Hennig Cohen Prize of the Melville Society for Article of the Year—“Tattoo Art: The Composition of Text, Voice and Race in Melville's Moby-Dick,” published in ESQ (2007).

National:
• 2007: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS), Honorable Mention for Prize of the Year for “Absorbing Hesitation: Wordsworth and the Theory of the Panorama,” Studies in Romanticism, October 2006.)
• 2005: Best Essay in the Field: British Romanticism (“Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800” Special Issue: “Romanticism and Opera. Romantic Circles Praxis. Spring 2005.) Awarded by the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Dinner at MLA Convention; Monetary Award; Plaque.
Local:
• 2008: Junior Scholar Fellowship, URI Center for the Humanities: 1 Course Release
• Nomination for Teaching Excellence Award, Honorable Mention, URI Foundation
• 2006: Nomination for Teaching Excellence Award, Honorable Mention, URI Foundation

International:
• 2010: Visiting Professor at the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
National:
• 2007: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Summer Fellowship $4,500 (declined)
• 2006: NEH Summer Institute: Human Rights in Conflict, Interdisciplinary Perspectives $3,600
Local:
• 2006: URI Center for the Humanities David Maron Faculty Sabbatical Fellowship $1,700

Local:
• 2008-09: Humanities Faculty Fellow, URI Center for the Humanities (URI award)
• 2007: Woman of the Year, Rhode Island Commission on Women (RI award)