Associate Professor in Germanic Studies and the College, received the University of Chicago Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring.

the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Germanic Studies and the College, published Theorie der Form: Gerhard Richter und die Malerei des pragmatischen Zeitalters (Theory of the form: Gerhard Richter and the art of the pragmatic age; Carl Hanser Verlag, 2012).

the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Germanic Studies and the College, published a Spanish translation of The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (University of Chicago Press, 2006), which he coauthored with Kenneth Reinhard and Slavoj Žižek.

the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, edited Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (German quarterly magazine of literature and intellectual history). He was also named a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Southeast Asian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Germanic Studies and the College, published Urteilen (Judging; Diaphanes, 2011).