Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Committee on Creative Writing, received grants from the Women’s Board of the University of Chicago and the Poetry Foundation for the Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Conference.

the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, received a research leave fellowship for 2015–16 from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for the project “Between Representation and Self-Expression: A Reconsideration of the Post-’45 American Novel.”

Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts in English Language and Literature and the Committee on Creative Writing, published Dragonfish: A Novel (WW Norton, 2015). Dragonfish was named as a New York Times Notable Book, the 2016 San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, and the 2016 Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year.

Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, received UChicago’s Neubauer Faculty Development Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching.

Assistant Professor in the department of English Language and Literature, received a 2015–16 research leave fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies for the project “Empire of Neglect: Imagining the Americas in a Liberal Age.”

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, published Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network (Columbia University Press, 2016).

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, received a research leave fellowship from the American Council for Learned Societies for his project “Light without Heat: Shades of Feeling in the Age of Scientific Revolution.”

Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, delivered the keynote address “Breath’s Compass and the City as Nostalgic Formation” at the conference Poetics of Place: Performing Selves in the Beyond Cities at the University of Montreal. Her book Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice received an honorable mention from the Modernist Studies Association Annual Book Prize Competition. She was awarded a Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for the Arts and Scholarship for the collaborative project “The Data We Breathe” with UChicago’s Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, received grants from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium, Center in Hong Kong, and Center in Beijing for his project “The Past For Sale.”

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for his project “Climate Change: Disciplinary Challenges to the Humanities and the Social Sciences.”