the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor in Music, the Committee on Jewish Studies, and the College, published Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe (Routledge, 2011). He also coedited Balkan Epic: Song, History, Modernity (Scarecrow Press, 2011) with Nada Petkovic, Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures, and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a residential fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Associate Professor in Germanic Studies and the College, published Jacques Derrida zur Einführung (Dresden: Junius Verlag, 2011).

the William H. Colvin Professor in Art History, Cinema and Media Studies (Chair), Slavic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and the College, received “SLON,” Award for Achievements from the Guild of Film Scholars and Critics of Russia.

the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, Comparative Literature, the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, the Divinity School, and the College, published Foucault, Wittgenstein: de possibles rencontres (Editions Kimé, 2011) with Frédéric Gros. He also edited Pierre Hadot, L’enseignement des antiques, l’enseignement des moderns (Presses de l’Ecole Normale Superieure, 2010) with Frédéric Worms; Primo Levy, Vivir para contar.

the Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies (Chair), the Committee on Jewish Studies, and the College, published The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty (University of Chicago Press, 2011). He also translated On the Psychology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig (University of Chicago Press, 2010), and was Gast des Direktors at the 2011 IFK Vienna (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften).

Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies and the College; Paola Iovene , Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College; and Judith Zeitlin, Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a grant from the University of Chicago Center in Beijing to host a conference entitled Chinese Opera Film: At the Intersection of Theater, Cinema, and Politics .

Lecturer in the Committee on Creative Writing and the Humanities Division, published The Irrationalist (Canarium Books, 2010).

the Mabel Greene Myers Professor in the Humanities, Music (Chair), Romance Languages and Literature, and the College, won the Gordon J. Laing Award for her book Opera and Sovereignty (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, was named a 2009 – 11 fellow at the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education.