Authors and editors of books published by Bucknell University Press, Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Duke University Press, Duquesne University Press, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, the University of Florida Press, Gale Publishing, State University of New York Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, University of South Carolina Press, University of Toronto Press, and others
* Editors of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, Milton Studies, volumes in the Research in Early English Drama series, in the Medieval and Renaissance Literary Series, in the Donne Variorum and Milton Variorum projects
* Recipients of international awards for scholarly publications and editing
* Poet laureate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
* Founder and director of the International Poetry Forum
* Officers in international, national, and regional professional organizations
* Recipients of Duquesne University Presidential Awards in Teaching, Scholarship and Service
* Executive Director of the Red Masquers, Duquesne's theatre company
Teaching Excellence
* Individual mentoring of students 
* Research faculty with a student-centered focus
* Supervised undergraduate internships
* Undergraduate publication opportunities
* Technologically current within a liberal arts literary tradition
* Commitment to Education for the Mind, the Heart and the Soul both in and outside the classroom.