Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies and the College, received a 2012–13 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities as well as a research grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.

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).