Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, received a 2015–16 research leave fellowship from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities for the project “The Unredemptive Middle Ages.”

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, received the University of Chicago Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring, and the Mark Ashin Fellowship for Excellence in College Teaching. She also received a 2015–16 research leave fellowship from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities for the project “Women and Children First: Early English Feminism and the Invention of Children’s Literature.”

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, published Network Aesthetics (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and co-authored the exhibition catalog The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer (MIT Press, 2016) with Michael Maizels of Wellesley College. He received two grants from the National Institutes of Health for “Hexacago: A game-based approach to engaging youth in health and science” with co-investigator and BSD professor Melissa Gilliam.

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, coedited Auden at Work (Palgarve Macmillan, 2015) and was Scholar in Residence at the Newberry Library in 2015–2016.

the Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture in English Language and Literature, published Other Things (University of Chicago Press, 2016).

the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, delivered a Katz Distinguished Lecture at the University of Washington.

Associate Professor in English Language & Literature and Creative Writing, published the poem "Pop Quiz" in Little Star 6. He also received grants in support of a 2014–15 research leave from the National Endowment for the Arts and Creative Capital.

the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language & Literature, received the American Comparative Literature Association's Renee Wellek Prize of the for his book Trade and Romance (University of Chicago Press, 2013).

the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English in the Department of English Language & Literature, delivered the keynote address at "The Prosaic Imaginary: Novels and the Everyday, 1750–2000" at the University of Sydney and the keynote address at the "Virginia Woolf: Writing the World" conference at Loyola University Chicago.

the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in English Language & Literature, delivered the Ioan Davies Distinguished Lecture at York University and the keynote address, "Sensing the Commons," at the International Association of Geographers. She was also the Stavro Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Trent University.