Assistant Professor in Visual Arts, the Computation Institute, and the College, was appointed a fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and his work Portrait (Hals) was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on the History of Culture, and the College, edited Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works (University of Chicago Press, 2009) with Victoria Kirkham and Scrittori Inconvenienti: Essays on and by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Gianni Celati (Ravenna: Angelo Longo Editore, 2009) with Rebecca West; his book The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade was a 2010 Lambda Literary Award for LBGT Studies Finalist, and his Petrarch was named a 2009 Outstanding Academic Title

Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities in South Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chair) and the College, published Nirvana: Concept, Imagery, and Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, published Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema (London: Reaktion Books, 2008) and Andrei Roublev d’Andrei Tarkovski (Paris: Les Editions de la Transparence, 2008).

Benjamin Franklin Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, and the College and Codirector of the France Chicago Center, published Napoleon et L’heritage de la Gloire (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2010).

Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor in the Divinity School, the Committee on Social Thought, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, published The Hindus: An Alternative History (New York: Penguin Press, 2009), which was a National Book Critics Circle 2009 Finalist, Nonfiction.

Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Philosophy, and the College, published Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy (Castle Lectures Series) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).

Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Anthropology, and the College and Director of the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, edited Bai Ganyo, a novel by Aleko Konstantinov (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), which he translated with Christina E. Kramer, Grace E.