Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, was named the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Dante Studies.

Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, delivered the keynote lecture at the “Pedro Paramo: 60 años” conference at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico.

Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures andTheater and Performance Studies, was appointed visiting professor at the Université Paris Sorbonne in December 2015.

Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, published Front Lines: Soldiers’ Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).

Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, published Preserving the Spell: Basile’s The Tale of Tales in the Fairy-Tale Tradition (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, delivered the keynote address “Paper Witness: Voices and Documents in Contemporary French Literature” at the Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures.

Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, received a 2015–16 research leave fellowship from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities for the project “Mexico’s Itinerant Objects: Practices of Writing, Perception and Material Culture.”

the Howard L. Willett Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, won the Grand Prix de l’Académie pour le Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises and was also awarded the Prix Pierre-Georges Castex de littérature française de l'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politique.

Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, was a contributor to Alain Chartier c.1385–1430: Father of French Eloquence (Brill, 2015).

the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, published Nuevas sonoras aves: Catorce estudios sobre Calderón de la Barca (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2015).