William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College, edited Scrittori inconvenienti: Essays on and by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Gianni Celati (Ravenna: Angelo Longo Editore, 2009) with Armando Maggi.

Howard L. Willett Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on the History of Culture, and the College and Editor of Montaigne Studies, published Montaigne: Les formes du monde et de l’esprit (Paris: PUPS, 2008) and edited Pensée morale et genres littéraires: de Montaigne à Genet (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2009) with Jean-Charles Darmon.

Professor Emerita in Romance Languages and Literatures, edited Scenes from Italian Convent Life: An Anthology of Convent Theatrical Texts and Contexts (Ravenna: Angelo Longo Editore, 2009).

Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities in Romance Languages and Literatures (Chair), Comparative Literature, and the College, is part of an international research consortium that has been awarded a grant by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation through its CONSOLIDER-INGENIO program to support a project titled “Spanish Classical Theatrical Patrimony, Texts, and Research.”

Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, was appointed a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

the Benjamin Franklin Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, and the College and executive director of the France Chicago Center, edited Héroïsme et lumières

Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on the History of Culture (Chair), and the College, published the first critical edition of Brunoro Zampeschi’s L’innamorato (Longo Editore, 2010) with graduate students Chiara Montanari, Michael Subialka, and Sarah Christopher-Faggioli.

the Howard L. Willett Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on the History of Culture, and the College and editor of Montaigne Studies, published Bibliotheca Desaniana (Editions Classiques Garnier, 2011) and edited Les Chapitres oubliés des “Essais” de Montaigne (Éditions Honoré Champion, 2011).

the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Humanities, Romance Languages and Literatures (Chair), Comparative Literature, and the College, was named to the editorial board of Anales Cervantinos . He was also awarded fellowships from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Consolider.

Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Theater and Performance Studies, and the College, published The Shock of the Ancient (University of Chicago Press, 2011).