1981–1982 Whiting Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
1983 (Summer), Goethe Institute Tuition Grant and Certificate, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
1985 (Summer), School of Criticism and Theory tuition grant, “Literature and Law” with Professor Stanley Fish, six-week program
1987, National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Acquisitions Grant, Thomas Mann Archives, Zürich, Switzerland
2007 (Summer), Holocaust Educational Foundation Fellowship: Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization
2008–2009 (September–August), Visiting Scholar, Central and Southeast European Studies, Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University
2008 (Fall), Fulbright Research Scholar, three-month research grant, Hungary