- Recipient of a Writers’ Residency Fellowship, Monastère de Saorge, France, July 2016
- Recipient of the conference grant from the University of Illinois Vice President Office for the International Symposium Angst in European Symbolism, University of Illinois-University of Paris IVSorbonne cooperation, 2015
- Recipient of NEH grant, Summer Institute on Leonardo da Vinci, Florence, 2012
- Recipient of the conference grant from the University of Illinois Vice President Office for the International Symposium on “The Symbolist Movement: Its Origins and Its Consequences,” the University of Illinois Conference Center, Allerton Park, April, 2012
- Recipient of The Strategic Academic Initiatives Grant from the University of Illinois at Springfield to organize the International Symposium on “The Symbolist Movement: Its Origins and Its Consequences,” the University of Illinois Conference Center, Allerton Park, April, 2012
- Recipient of a private grant to organize the International Symposium on “The Symbolist Movement: Its Origins and Its Consequences,” the University of Illinois Conference Center, Allerton Park, April, 2012
- Recipient of the Chancellor’s Fund to subsidize partially the preparation of the volume Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences for publication, 2010
- Recipient of The Strategic Academic Initiatives Grant from UIS to organize the International Symposium on “The Symbolist Movement: Its Origins and Its Consequences,” University of Illinois Conference Center, Allerton Park, 2009
- Recipient of the University summer research grant, 2008, University of Illinois at Springfield
- Recipient of NEH grant, Summer Seminar on Ekphrasis, University of Chicago, Summer 2003. (Five other grants can be listed upon request)
