Curriculum Vitae

This list includes the major awards, publications, and creative endeavors of Division of the Humanities faculty members from the 2011-2012 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

Persis Berlekamp,

Associate Professor in Art History and the College, published Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam (Yale University Press, 2011) and was awarded a 2011–12 research leave fellowship from the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard.

Cécile Fromont,

Assistant Professor in Art History and the College, recieved an honor for her work, "Dance, Image, Myth, and Conversion in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1500–1800," which was listed as one of "50 influential articles published by the Journals Division of the MIT Press" in the last 50 years.

Matthew Jesse Jackson,

Associate Professor in Art History, Visual Arts, and the College, coedited Vision and Communism: Viktor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual Culture with Robert Bird, Christopher P. Heuer, Tumelo Mosaka, and Stephanie Smith (The New York Press, 2011). He also won the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies for his 2010 book The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes.

Aden Kumler,

Assistant Professor in Art History and the College, published Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England (Yale University Press, 2011), which was shortlisted for the ACE/Mercer’s International Book Award.

Christine Mehring,

Associate Professor in Art History and the College, coedited Gerhard Richter Panorama: A Retrospective (D.A.P./Tate, 2011) with Nicholas Serota, Mark Godfrey, Achim Borchadt-Hume, Dorothee Brill, Rachel Haidu, and Camille Morineau. 

Richard T. Neer,

the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in Art History and the College, published Art and Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, c. 2500–c. 150 B.C.E. (Thames and Hudson, 2011).

Wu Hung,

the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, published Art and Exhibition (in Korean; Moonsachul Publishing, 2011) and A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture (Reaktion Books and Princeton University Press, 2012). He also edited the exhibition catalogs Ye Yongqing: Broken Flow (China Global Culture Publishing House, 2011), Contemporary Art is an Open House (Lingnan Publisher, 2011), and Wu Jin Qi Yong: Laobaixing de dangdai yishu (Waste Not: Ordinary People’s Contemporary Art; Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2011). He was elected to the American Philosophical Society; received the National Cultural Heritage Award for Art of the Yellow Springs, which was selected as one of the ten best books on art and archaeology; and received the Fifth AAC Art Award for Best Exhibition of the Year, 2010's A Second History at Guangdong Art Museum.

Rebecca Zorach,

Professor in Art History, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College, published The Passionate Triangle (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and won a faculty-in-residence grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Cinema and Media Studies

Miriam Hansen,

the Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, English Language and Literature, and the College, posthumously published Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno (University of California Press, 2012).

Yuri Tsivian,

the William H. Colvin Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, Art History, and the College, published Kinematograf v Peterburge 1896–1917 with coauthor Anna Kovalova (Cinema in Saint Petersbug 1896–1917; Seanse Publishing House, 2012).

Jennifer Wild,

Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies and the College, was awarded a 201112 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Classics

Michael Allen,

Associate Professor in Classics and the College, was named a fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek program.

Clifford Ando,

Professor in Classics and the College, published Le Droit et l’Empire. Invention juridique et réalités politiques à Rome (Translated by Michèle Bresson; Odile Jacob, 2012), Imperial Rome: The Critical Century (A.D. 193–284) (Edinburgh University Press, 2012), and Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). He won the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize from Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a faculty-in-residence grant from the Loeb Classical Library at Harvard. He also delivered the Rackham Centennial Lecture at the University of Michigan.

Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer,

the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor in Classics and the College, was named a distinguished visiting scholar at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Alain Bresson,

Professor in Classics and the College, served as a visiting scholar at the American Numismatic Society.

Christopher Faraone,

the Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in Classics and the College, published Ancient Victims, Modern Observers: Reflections on Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and and coedited Imagined Beginnings: The Poetics and Politics of Cosmogony, Theogony and Anthropogony in the Ancient World with Andrea Seri (special issue of the Journal for Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 2012).

Jonathan Hall,

the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in History, Classics, and the College, published Historia Grecji archaicznej, ok. 1200479 p.n.e. (Polish translation by Magdalena Komorowska; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2011).

Emanuel Mayer,

Assistant Professor in Classics and the College, received a faculty-in-residence grant from the Loeb Classical Library at Harvard.

Sarah Nooter,

Assistant Professor in Classics and the College, published When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and was awarded a 2011–12 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Mark Payne,

Associate Professor in Classics, Social Thought, and the College, received the Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism for his work The Animal Part.

Peter White,

the Herman C. Bernick Family Professor in Classics and the College, was awarded a research leave fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a participant at the NEH's Summer Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities.

Comparative Literature

Françoise Meltzer,

the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Comparative Literature, Divinity, and the College, published Saints: Faith without Borders (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and Seeing Double: Baudelaire’s Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Haun Saussy, University Professor in Comparative Literature and the College, published Course in General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure (Columbia University Press, 2011).

Creative Writing

Suzanne Buffam,

Lecturer in Creative Writing and the College, won the Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize and had her book The Irrationalist shortlisted for the Griffin Prize.

Dan Raeburn,

Lecturer in Creative Writing and the College, was awarded a fellowship from the Howard Foundation at Brown University.

Megan Stielstra,

Lecturer in Creative Writing and the College, had her collection of short stories, Everyone Remain Calm, chosen as an Editor’s Pick on CBS Chicago’s Best New Chicago Books.

East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Michael Bourdaghs,

Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Pre-History of J-Pop (Columbia University Press, 2012) and won the Modern Language Association's Scaglione Prize for a translation of a scholarly study of literature for Natsume Sōseki's Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings, which he translated in collaboration with Atsuko Ueda and Joseph A. Murphy.

Hoyt Long,

Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan (Stanford University Press, 2011).

David T. Roy, Professor Emeritus in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published the translation The Plum in the Golden Vase or Chin P’ing Mei Volume Four: The Climax (Princeton University Press, 2011).
Edward Shaughnessy,

the Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Xing yu xiang: Zhongguo gudai wenhua shi lunwenji 興與象:中國古代文化史論文集 (Arousal and Images: Essays on Ancient Chinese Cultural History; Shanghai Guji chubanshe, 2012).

Judith Zeitlin,

Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was awarded 2011–12 research leave fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Guggenheim Foundation.

English Language and Literature

Lauren Berlant, the George M. Pullman Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, published El corazón de la nación: ensayos sobre política y sentimentalismo (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2011), a Spanish translation of her earlier work . She is also a fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and won the Rene Wellek Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association for her book Cruel Optimism.
David Bevington, the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, Theater and Performance Studies, and the College, published Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Timothy Campbell, Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, was awarded a 2011–12 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Hillary Chute,

the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, served as associate editor on Art Spigelman's MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus (Panetheon, 2011).

Leela Gandhi,

Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a Sawyer Seminar, "Around 1948: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Global Transformation," which featured participation from other University faculty; she was also named a senior fellow of the School for Criticism and Theory at Cornell.

Elaine Hadley,

Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, won the 2011 Albion Book Prize for her 2010 book Living Liberalism: Practical Citizenship in Victorian Britain and received the University's Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring.

Heather Keenleyside,

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, co-edited Animals, the second volume of British It-Narratives, 1750–1830, with Liz Bellamy, Mark Blackwell, and Christina Lupton (Pickering and Chatto, 2012) and received the 2011–12 Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Huntington Library.

W. J. T. Mitchell,

the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, Art History, Visual Arts, and the College, published Seeing Through Race (W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures) (Harvard University Press, 2012) and gave the 2012 Petrou Lecture at the University of Maryland.

John Muse,

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, Theater and Performance Studies, and the College, was accepted to the inaugural summer session of the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard.

Srikanth Reddy,

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, Creative Writing, and the College, published Readings in World Literature (Omnidawn Books, 2012), Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2012), Voyager (University of California Press, 2011), and Conversities with co-author Dan Beachy-Quick (1913 Press, 2012).

Lawrence Rothfield,

Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, and the College, was the 2011–12 writer-in-residence at the ARCA Summer Program in Amelia, Italy.

Lisa Ruddick,

Associate Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Master of Liberal Arts Program of the University's Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies.

Jennifer Scappettone,

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, Creative Writing, and the College, edited and translated Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli (University of Chicago Press, 2012) for which she received the Raiziss de Palchi Book Award from the Academy of American Poets. She also recieved three residency grants from iLand, the Millay Colony Group, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Joshua Scodel,

the Helen A. Regenstein Professor in English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, and the College, received the MLA Prize for Distinguished Scholarly Edition for Elizabeth I: Translations, 1544–1589, which he coedited with Janel Mueller, the William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in English Language and Literature and the College.

Eric Slauter, Associate Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, was named a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Richard Strier,

the Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, Divinity, and the College, published The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton (University of Chicago Press, 2011), for which he won the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for Literary Criticism.

John Wilkinson,

Professor of Practice in the Arts in English Language and Literature, Creative Writing, and the College, published The Ode and the Gate of Gathering (Crater Press, 2011).

Germanic Studies

Florian Klinger,

the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Germanic Studies and the College, published Urteilen (Judging; Diaphanes, 2011).

David Levin,

the Addie Clark Harding Professor in Germanic Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, Theater and Performance Studies, and the College, served as the Wertheim Lecturer at Indiana UniversityBloomington and as faculty of the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard.

David E. Wellbery,

the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Social Thought, and the College, edited Kultur-Schreiben als romantisches Projekt. Romantische Ethnographie im Spannungsfeld zwischen Imagination und Wissenschaft (Könighausen & Neumann, 2012).

Christopher Wild,

Associate Professor in Germanic Studies and the College, coedited Theaterfeinlichkeit und Antitheatralität with Stefanie Diekmann (Fink, 2011).

Linguistics

Amy Dahlstrom, Associate Professor in Linguistics and the College, was invited to be a scholar-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution for their Recovering Voices initiative.
John Goldsmith,

the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Linguistics, Computer Science, and the College, coedited The Handbook of Phonological Theory with Jason Riggle and Alan C. L. Yu, both Associate Professors in Linguistics and the College (Second Edition; Wiley Blackwell, 2011).

Gregory Kobele, the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Linguistics and the College, served as Invite Jeune Chercheur (junior invited researcher) at LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France.
Jason Merchant,

Professor in Linguistics and the College, coedited Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Explorations with Andrew Simpson (Oxford University Press, 2012) and received the University's Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Music

Philip Bohlman,

the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College, co-edited Balkan Epic: Song, History, Modernity with Nada Petković, Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College (Scarecrow Press, 2012). He also received the 2011 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society and presented the John Larchet Memorial Lecture at University College Dublin in Ireland.

Thomas Christensen,

the Avalon Foundation Professor in Music and the College, published a Chinese translation of his 2006 book The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory.

Martha Feldman,

the Mabel Greene Myers Professor in Music and the College, published an electronic edition of her 2009 book The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2012), which she coedited with Bonnie Gordon. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and gave the convocation address at the University of Chicago in August 2011.

Travis Jackson,

Associate Professor in Music and the College, published Blowin’ the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene (University of California Press, 2012).

Marta Ptaszynska, the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Music and the College, published The Lovers from the Cloister of Valldemosa (full score, verbal score, and complete orchestral material; Polish Music Publications, 2011). She also recieved the 2011 Special Award for “outstanding live achievements in composition” from the Union of Polish Composers and the Award of the Minister of Culture of Poland for her opera on Chopin, written for the 2011 Chopin Bicentennial.
Shulamit Ran,

the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College, had three works commercially recorded: "Shirim L’Yom Tov—Four Festive Songs" on Days of Awe and Rejoicing: Radiant Gems of Jewish Music (Chicago a Cappella, 2011), Perfect Storm for solo viola (Theodore Presser Company, 2011), and "Song and Dance" for saxophone and percussion on Carillon Sky (Impermanence Records, 2011).

Steven Rings,

Associate Professor in Music and the College, published Tonality and Transformation (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Augusta Read Thomas,

University Professor in Music and the College, published Mansueto Tribute, Double Helix for two violins (premiere by Janet Sung and Yuan-Qing Yu, 2011) along with several other compositions. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Conseil Musical de la Foundation Prince Pierre de Monaco and was appointed a lifetime member of the advisory committee of the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia.

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Orit Bashkin,

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq (Stanford University Press, 2012) and was awarded a 2011–12 research leave fellowship at the Katz Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Fred M. Donner,

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, recieved a nomination for the Grawemeyer Award in Religion from the University of Louisville for his 2010 book  Muhammad and the Believers, which was recently published in paperback (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2012) and transtated into Italian as Maometto e le origini dell'islam (Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., 2011). He also edited The Articulation of Early Islamic State Structures (Ashgate, 2012) and was elected to a three-year term as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.

Wadad Kadi,

the Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, received an honorary degree from the American University Beirut and was awarded the Middle East Medievalists' Lifetime Achievement Award.

Franklin Lewis, Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Things We Left Unsaid (Oneworld Classic, 2012).
Brian P. Muhs,

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published Receipts, Scribes and Collectors in Early Ptolemaic Thebes (O. Taxes 2) (Peeters Publishers, 2011).

Dennis Pardee,

the Henry Crown Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published Ugaritic and the Origins of the West-Semitic Literary Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2012), Une bibliothèque au sud de la ville***. Textes 1994–2002 en cunéiforme alphabétique de la maison d’Ourtenou, Ras Shamra-Ougarit XVIII with coauthors Pierre Bordreuil and Robert Hawley (Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, 2012), and coedited Grammatical Case in the Languages of the Middle East and Europe: Acts of the International Colloquium Variations, concurrence et evolution des cas dans divers domains linguistiques with Michèle Fruyt and Michel Mazoyer (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 64; Oriental Institute, 2011).

Robert Ritner,

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: A Complete Edition (Smith Petit Foundation, 2012).

David Schloen,

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, was awarded the Levi-Sala Book Prize for his work on Ashkelon in the seventh century B.C.E in Biblical Archaeology Review.

Andrea Seri,

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published Local Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Equinox Publishing, 2012) and coedited Imagined Beginnings: The Poetics and Politics of Cosmogony, Theogony and Anthropogony in the Ancient World with Christopher Faraone (special issue of the Journal for Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 2012).

Theo van den Hout,

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published The Elements of Hittite (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Philosophy

Jason Bridges,

Associate Professor in Philosophy and the College, coedited The Possibility of Philosophical Understanding: Reflections on the Thought of Barry Stroud with Niko Kolodny and Wai-hung Wong (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Ted Cohen,

Professor in Philosophy and the College, published translations of two earlier books, Thinking of Others (in Spanish) and High and Low Art (in Slovak) in 2012.

James Conant,

the Chester D. Tripp Professor in Philosophy and the College, published Orwell ou le pouvoir de la vérité (Agone, 2011) and coedited Rethinking Epistemology, Volume 2 with Abel Günter (Walter De Gruyter Inc., 2012). He is a Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Göttingen) and the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Anneliese Maier-Forschungspreis five-year grant. His 1998 article “Wittgenstein on Meaning and Use” was selected as one of Philosophical Investigations’   ten best articles published in the journal from 1980 to present.

Arnold I. Davidson,

the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Philosphy, Comparative Literature, Romance Languages and Literatures, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, Divinity, and the College, coedited Foucault, Wittgenstein: de possibles rencontres with Frédéric Gros (Édition Kimé, 2011) and Pierre Hadot: l'insegnamento degli antichi, l'insegnamento dei moderni with Frédéric Worms (Edizioni ETS, 2012).

Michael N. Forster, the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy and the College, published German Philosophy of Language: From Schlegel to Hegel and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2011) and received the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, an international research prize from the Humboldt Foundation.
Jonathan Lear,

the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in Social Thought, Philosophy, and the College, published A Case for Irony: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values (Harvard University Press, 2011).

Martha Nussbaum,

the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, Law, and the College, received the Phi Betta Kappa Society's Sidney Hook Memorial Award and the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences and received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a Sawyer Seminar, "International Women's Human Rights: Paradigms, Paradoxes, and Possibilities," which featured participation from other University faculty.

Robert B. Pippin,

the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in Social Thought, Philosophy, and the College, published Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy (Page-Barbour Lectures; University of Virginia Press, 2012) and a paperback edition of his 2010 book Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Bart Schultz,

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and director of the Civic Knowledge Project, received the 2012 Faculty Initiative Award from the University's Neighborhood Schools Program.

Josef Stern, the William H. Colvin Professor in Philosophy and the College, was named Russel Berrie Visiting Professor at the Angelicum (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy).

Romance Languages and Literatures

Frederick A. de Armas,

the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and the College, published Don Quixote among the Saracens: A Clash of Civilizations and Literary Genres (University of Toronto Press, 2011), which received an Honorary Mention for the PROSE Award in Literature; he also coedited Calderón: del manuscrito a la escena with Luciano García Lorenzo (Iberoamericana, 2011).

Phillipe Desan,

the Howard L. Willett Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and the College, edited Les Chapitres oubliés des Essais de Montaigne: Actes des journées d’étude à la mémoire de Michel Simonin. (Honoré Champion, 2011).

Daniel Desormeaux, Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and the College, published Mémoires du général Toussaint Louverture (A Critical Edition) (Classiques Garnier, 2011).
Armando Maggi,

Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and the College, published a paperback edition of his 2009 book Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works, with coeditor Victoria Kirkham (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and edited De' gesti eroici e della vita maravigliosa della Serafica S. Caterina da Siena, a critical edition of work by Lucrezia Marinella (Longo Editore, 2011).

Robert Morrissey, the Benjamin Franklin Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and the College, was appointed to the Astor Visiting Lectureship at the University of Oxford, England.
Larry Norman, Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Theatre and Performance Studies, and the College, received an honor for his book Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early-Modern France, which was selected for discussion at an H-France Forum.
Thomas Pavel, the Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and the College, was named a Commander in the Order of Cultural Merit by the President of Romania.
Rocco Rubini,

Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and the College, was awarded a 201112 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Robert Bird,

Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College, published Fyodor Dostoevsky (Reaktion Books, 2012) and edited Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary: Soviet Children's Books and Graphic Art (University of Chicago Library, 2011); he also coedited Vision and Communism: Viktor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual Culture with Matthew Jesse Jackson, Christopher P. Heuer, Tumelo Mosaka, and Stephanie Smith (The New York Press, 2011).

Victor Friedman,

the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Anthropology, and the College, published Makedonistički Studii (Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011), Očerki lakskogo jazyka (Russian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011), and coedited Macedonian Matters: Proceedings of the Seventh Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian Studies with Donald L. Dyer (a special supplement of the journal Balkanista, 2012). He was recently elected to the scientific committee of the European Academic Network on Romani Studies; he recieved the Award of Appreciation for Contributions to Albanology from the Seminar for Albanian Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of Prishtina and the Award of Appreciation for Contributions to the Study of Macedonian and the Languages of Macedonia from the FON University. In addition, he was a finalist for the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association and for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year in the fiction-multicultural category for Bai Ganyo, a nineteenth-century novel he edited and translated.

William Nickell, Assistant Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, received an Honorable Mention from the MLA Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures for his work The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910.
Valentina Pichugin,

Senior Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, published Advanced Russian Through Film: A Collection of Transcripts and Exercises (Second Edition; Hermitage Publishers, 2011).

Bożena Shallcross,

Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, coedited The Effect of Palimpsest: Culture, Literature, History with Ryszard Nycz (Peter Lang, 2011) and published The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture (Indiana University Press, 2011) for which she recieved an Honorable Mention for the Kulczycki Book Prize from the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Lina Steiner,

Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, published For Humanity's Sake: The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2011).

South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Muzaffar Alam,

the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Writing the Mughal World: Studies in Political Culture with coauthor Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Columbia University Press and Permanent Black New Delhi, 2012) and was awarded the Sir Jadunath Sarkar Gold Medal for Pre-Modern South Asian History from the Asiatic Society in Kolkata.

Dipesh Chakrabarty,

the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, published Itihasher janajibon o anyanyo probondho (The Public Life of History and Other Essays) (Ananda Publishers, 2011) and Provincializing Europe (Polish and Turkish translations; 2011). He was the Lansdowne Lecturer at Victoria University, Canada and recieved the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, India.

Steven Collins,

the Chester D. Tripp Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was the co-principal investigator for "The Theravada Civilizations Project: Future Directions in the Study of Buddhism in Southeast Asia," funded by the Luce Foundation.

Wendy Doniger,

the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor in Divinity, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Social Thought, and the College, edited The Magic Doe: Shaikh Qutban Suhravadī’s Mirigāvatī  (Oxford University Press, 2011; translated by Aditya Behl) and recieved the University's Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring.

Sascha Ebeling,

Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, edited and translated A Second Sunrise and Other Poems by R. Cheran in collaboration with Lakshmi Holmström (Navayana, 2012).

Jason Grunebaum, Senior Lecturer in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published a translation of Uday Prakash's The Walls of Delhi (UWA Publishing, 2012).
Rochona Majumdar,

Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College, was honored for her work Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal, which was shortlisted as one of the five best books published in the social sciences in 2009–2010 by the International Convention of Asia Scholars.

Visual Arts

Laura Letinsky,

Professor in Visual Arts and the College, presented five solo exhibitions including III Form and Void Full at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hot and Cold All Over at Joseph Carroll and Sons, Boston; Mid-Career Survey at the Museum of Hagen, Germany; All That, and More at the Denver Museum of Art, Colorado; and What Matters at the Museum of North Dakota.

Geof Oppenheimer,

Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts in Visual Arts and the College, presented the solo exhibition Inside us all there is a part that would like to burn down our own house at Ratio3 in San Francisco.

William Pope.L,

Associate Professor in Visual Arts and the College, presented a solo exhibition to premiere his feature film Reenactor at the Williams Center Gallery at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania and presented his solo exhibition Three Projects at Galerie Catherine Bastide in Brussels, Belgium; he also published Black People Are Cropped: Skin Set Drawings 1997–2011 (JRP-Ringier, 2012).

Jason Salavon,

Assistant Professor in Visual Arts and the College, was the artist-in-residence for Chicago Ideas Week 2011 and his work "The Top Grossing Film of All Time, 1 x 1" was aquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York; he also presented a solo exhibition at the Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles.

David Schutter,

Assistant Professor in Visual Arts and the College, presented a solo exhibition at Aurel Scheibler in Berlin, Germany.

Jessica Stockholder,

Professor in Visual Arts and the College, presented Color Jam, an installation at the corner of State Street and Adams under the auspices of the Chicago Loop Alliance; Wide Eyes Smeared Here Dear at Musée d’art Moderne in Saint-Etienne Metropole, France; and Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood at Frac des Pays de la Loire in Nantes, France; she also published Grab grassy this moment your I's (1301PE 2011), a catalog of her recent installation at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis.

Catherine Sullivan,

Assistant Professor in Visual Arts and the College, presented a solo exhibition at the University of Chicago's Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.