Faculty Recognition for Teaching

The Literature Department values and encourages good teaching. Over the years a number of our faculty members have been recognized by the university for teaching excellence.

UNC Asheville Distinguished Teaching Award

• Gerald Gullickson 1982
• Margaret Downes 1988
• Bob Yeager 1994
• Ed Katz 2004

UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching

• Deborah James 2000
• Merritt Moseley 2001
• Rick Chess 2002
• Margaret Downes 2003

Distinguished Teacher in the Humanities

• Deborah James 1996
• Peter Caulfield 1998
• Ed Katz 2000
• Blake Hobby 2006

Distinguished Teaching by an Untenured Professor

• Ed Katz 1995
• Gwen Ashburn 2000
• Blake Hobby 2010 

Distinguished Teaching by a Part-Time Faculty Member

• Ellen Perry 2004
• Patrick Finn 2006

Faculty Awards for Scholarship and Service

Ruth and Leon Feldman Professorships

• David Hopes 1989
• Peggy Parris 1990
• Merritt Moseley 1997
• Richard Chess 1999
• Margaret Downes  2000

Distinguished Service Award 

Merritt Moseley 2008

Distinguished Scholarship and Creative Activity Award

David Hopes 2006

Alumni Distinguished Faculty Award

Merritt Moseley 2005