the Addie Clark Harding Professor in Germanic Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, and the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, published Opera Quarterly 29.1: Recovered Voices (Oxford University Press, 2013), which he edited with Ken Reinhard.

the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Germanic Studies, delivered the Tanner Lectures in Human Values at the University of California, Berkeley.

the Addie Clark Harding Professor in Germanic Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, and the College and Director of the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for The Voice Project, a collaboration with Martha Feldman and a number of other Humanities faculty members to explore the concept of "voice" in an interdisciplinary way.