Curriculum Vitae

This list includes the major awards, publications, and creative endeavors of Division of the Humanities faculty members from the 2009-2010 academic year (July 1 to June 30). All faculty members are listed with their rank and title as of June 30 of that year.

Art History

Jas’ Elsner, Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, and Visiting Professor in Art History, edited Images and Texts on the “Artemidorus Papyrus” (Stuttgart: Historia Einzelschriften, 2009) with Kai Brodersen.  
Darby English, Associate Professor in Art History and the College, was appointed a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study and received the University of Chicago’s Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
Neil Harris, Preston and Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus in History and Art History, was awarded an Emeritus Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, and Consulting Curator at the Smart Museum of Art, published Zhang Huan gongzuoshi: Yishu yu laodong (Guilin: Guangxi shifan daxue chubanshe, 2009), Waste Not: Zhao Xiangyuan and Song Dong (Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery, 2009), and Shikong zhong de meishu: Wu Hung Zhongguo meishushi wenbian erji (Beijing: Sanlian shudian, 2009).
Matthew Jesse Jackson, Associate Professor in Art History, Visual Arts, and the College, published The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
Richard Neer, David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in the Humanities in Art History and the College and Coeditor of Critical Inquiry, published The Emergence of Classical Style in Greek Sculpture (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
Ralph Ubl, Allan and Jean Frumkin Professor of Visual Art in the Committee on Social Thought, Art History, and the College, edited Topologie, Falten, Netze, Stulpungen in Kunst und Theorie (Vienna: Verlag Turia + Kant, 2009) with Wolfram Pichler.

Cinema and Media Studies

Tom Gunning, Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, and the College, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Yuri Tsivian, William H. Colvin Professor in Art History, Cinema and Media Studies (Chair), Slavic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and the College, published Approaches to Carpalistics: Movement and Gesture in Art, Literature, and Film (Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2010).  

Classics

Clifford Ando, Professor in Classics and the College, was a 2009–2010 Visiting Professor at the Assembly of the Collège de France.  
Shadi Bartsch, Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor in Classics and the College, edited Seneca and the Self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) with David Wray.
Alain Bresson, Professor in Classics and the College, was appointed an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center.   
Christopher Faraone, Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities in Classics and the College, published The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Michèle Lowrie, Professor in Classics and the College, published Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) and edited Horace: Odes and Epodes (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Peter White, Herman C. Bernick Family Professor in Classics and the College, published Cicero in Letters: Epistolary Relations of the Late Republic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
David Wray,

Associate Professor in Classics and the College and director of the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities, edited Seneca and the Self (Cambridge University Press, 2009) with Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer.

Creative Writing

Daniel Raeburn, Lecturer in the Committee on Creative Writing, was awarded a Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing by the National Endowment for the Arts.

East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Michael K. Bourdaghs, Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, edited The Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies: Textuality, Language, Politics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Publications, 2010).
Paul Copp, Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was appointed a fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Yuming He, Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was appointed a fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

English Language and Literature

Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Professor in English Language and Literature and the College and Coeditor of Critical Inquiry, published The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008).
David Bevington, Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, and the College (Chair, Theater and Performance Studies), published Shakespeare’s Ideas: More Things in Heaven and Earth (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).
Leela Gandhi, Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, was appointed a fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Elaine Hadley, Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
Elizabeth Helsinger, John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, Art History, Visual Arts (Chair), and the College and Coeditor of Critical Inquiry, published Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
Srikanth “Chicu” Reddy, Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, was appointed a fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Lawrence Rothfield, Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, and the College and Research Affiliate in the Cultural Policy Center, received the 2010 Award for Excellence in Art Crime Scholarship from the Association for Research into Crimes against Art.
Jennifer Scappettone, Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, Creative Writing, and the College, edited Aufgabe #7 (New York: Litmus Press, 2008) and was appointed a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.
Richard Stern, Helen A. Regenstein Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature, published Still on Call (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2010).  
Richard Strier, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, Divinity School, and the College and Editor of Modern Philology, edited Divisions on a Ground: Essays on the English Renaissance Literature in Honor of Donald M. Friedman (George Herbert Journal Monograph v. 29) (Fairfield: Sacred Heart University, 2008) with Kimberly Johnson and Michael C. Schoenfeldt.
Kenneth Warren, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, the Committees on African and African-American Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, and History of Culture, and the College, was appointed the R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library.

Germanic Studies

David E. Wellbery, LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies (Chair), Comparative Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, was awarded the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Preis of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Linguistics

Alan C. L. Yu, Associate Professor of Linguistics and the College, received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support his project “Understanding Perceptual Compensation in Sound Change.”

Music

Philip V. Bohlman, Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College, published Jewish Cabaret in Exile, a CD and booklet, with the New Budapest Orpheum Society (Chicago: Cedille Records, 2009); edited Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New (University of Chicago Press, 2008); was awarded an honorary professorship at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover (Germany) and, with Christine Bohlman, won the 2009 Donald Tovey Memorial Prize from Oxford University’s Faculty of Music for their research on and performance of music from the concentration camps, particularly Viktor Ullmann’s Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornet Christoph Rilke.
Philip Gossett, Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Music and Romance Languages and Literatures, received a grant renewal from the Packard Humanities Institute continuing its support of his “Works of Gioachino Rossini” project.
Kaley Mason, Assistant Professor in Music and the College, was appointed a fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Marta Ptaszynska, Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Music and the College, received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Larry Zbikowski, Associate Professor in Music and the College, received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and was appointed Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Cognitive Music Theory at McGill University.

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Orit Bashkin, Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, was appointed a Teagle Fellow for the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education.
Fred M. Donner, Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, published Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010).
Cornell Fleischer, Kanuni Suleyman Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, was awarded a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching by the University of Chicago.
Farouk Mustafa, (pen name Farouk Abdel Wahab), Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Love in Exile, a translation of a novel by Bahaa Taher (London: Arabia Books, 2008); The Lodging House, a translation of a novel by Khairy Shalaby (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008); and The Zafarani Files, a translation of a novel by Gamal al-Ghitani (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008).
Dennis G. Pardee, Henry Crown Professor of Hebrew Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published A Manual of Ugaritic (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2009) and received a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching from the University of Chicago.
Robert Ritner, Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published The Libyan Anarchy: Inscriptions from Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period (Writings from the Ancient World No. 21) (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Na’ama Rokem, Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to support her spring 2010 conference “German and Hebrew: Histories of a Conversation” and was appointed a fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.
Matthew W. Stolper, John A. Wilson Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, edited L’archive des Fortifications de Persépolis: Etat des questions et perspectives de recherché (Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2008) with Pierre Briant and Wouter Henkelman.
John E. Woods, Professor in History, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College, received the Farabi International Award for contributions to the Humanities and Islamic Studies.

Philosophy

Arnold I. Davidson, Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, Comparative Literature, the Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, Divinity School, and the College, Executive Editor of Critical Inquiry, and Codirector of the France Chicago Center, edited Pierre Hadot, L’enseignement des antiques, l’enseignement des moderns (Paris: Presses de l’Ecole Normale Superieure, 2010) with Frédéric Worms; Primo Levy, Vivir para contar. Escribir tras Auschwitz (Barcelona: Alpha Decay, 2010); and Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) with Graham Burchell.
Jonathan Lear, John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freud Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School, Philosophy, Divinity School, and the College, published Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality (New York: Basic Books, 2008).
Robert B. Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Philosophy, and the College, published Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy (Castle Lectures Series) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).
W. W. Tait, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, was awarded an Emeritus Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Romance Languages and Literatures

Frederick A. de Armas, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities in Romance Languages and Literatures (Chair), Comparative Literature, and the College, is part of an international research consortium that has been awarded a grant by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation through its CONSOLIDER-INGENIO program to support a project titled “Spanish Classical Theatrical Patrimony, Texts, and Research.”
Philippe Desan, Howard L. Willett Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on the History of Culture, and the College and Editor of Montaigne Studies, published Montaigne: Les formes du monde et de l’esprit (Paris: PUPS, 2008) and edited Pensée morale et genres littéraires: de Montaigne à Genet (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2009) with Jean-Charles Darmon.
Armando Maggi, Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on the History of Culture, and the College, edited Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works (University of Chicago Press, 2009) with Victoria Kirkham and Scrittori Inconvenienti: Essays on and by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Gianni Celati (Ravenna: Angelo Longo Editore, 2009) with Rebecca West; his book The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade was a 2010 Lambda Literary Award for LBGT Studies Finalist, and his Petrarch was named a 2009 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice.
Robert Morrissey, Benjamin Franklin Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, and the College and Codirector of the France Chicago Center, published Napoleon et L’heritage de la Gloire (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2010).
Larry Norman, Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and the College, edited Révolutions homériques (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2009) with Glenn Most and Sophie Rabau.
Thomas Pavel, Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, was appointed a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Elissa B. Weaver, Professor Emerita in Romance Languages and Literatures, edited Scenes from Italian Convent Life: An Anthology of Convent Theatrical Texts and Contexts (Ravenna: Angelo Longo Editore, 2009).
Rebecca West, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College, edited Scrittori inconvenienti: Essays on and by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Gianni Celati (Ravenna: Angelo Longo Editore, 2009) with Armando Maggi.

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Robert Bird, Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, published Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema (London: Reaktion Books, 2008) and Andrei Roublev d’Andrei Tarkovski (Paris: Les Editions de la Transparence, 2008).
Victor Friedman, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Anthropology, and the College and Director of the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, edited Bai Ganyo, a novel by Aleko Konstantinov (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), which he translated with Christina E. Kramer, Grace E. Fielder, and Catherine Rudin; published The Balkan Languages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) with Brian Joseph; and received the Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic/East European Languages.
Bozena Shallcross, Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, published Rzeczy I Zaglada (Kraków: Universitas, 2010).

South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Yigal Bronner, Assistant Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, published An Anti-Colonial History of the Postcolonial Turn (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2009) and was awarded a Doctor of Literature (honoris causa) by the University of London.
Steven Collins, Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities in South Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chair) and the College, published Nirvana: Concept, Imagery, and Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor in the Divinity School, the Committee on Social Thought, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, published The Hindus: An Alternative History (New York: Penguin Press, 2009), which was a National Book Critics Circle 2009 Finalist, Nonfiction.
Jason Grunebaum, Senior Lecturer in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, with Ulrike Stark, has been awarded a Literature Fellowship in Translation by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Ulrike Stark, Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, with Jason Grunebaum, has been awarded a Literature Fellowship in Translation by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Visual Arts

Laura Letinsky, Professor in Visual Arts, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College, published After All (Bologna: Damiani Publishers, 2010), and her photography will appear in American Photography 26.
Jason Salavon, Assistant Professor in Visual Arts, the Computation Institute, and the College, was appointed a fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and his work Portrait (Hals) was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.