Recipient of the University Distinguished Teaching Award (1999) and the Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring (2007)

Author of the novels Dog (2005) and Missing (1990), the collection of novellas A New and Glorious Life (1998), the collection of personal essays The Middle of Everything (2005), and, most recently, the Kindle Single novella-length essay Dream Life (2011).

For further information about Professor Michelle Herman, see her personal website, www.michelleherman.com.