the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, received an Eisner Award and a National Jewish Book award for MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus (Pantheon, 2011) by Art Spiegelman, for which she served as associate editor. She also received a research leave fellowship for 2012–13 from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where she was a visiting scholar.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
