Professor in Germanic Studies, the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, and the College, was appointed the inaugural director of the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a book subvention award from the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies for his book Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon (Columbia University Press, 2011).

Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and the College, received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

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.

the George M. Pullman Professor in English Language and Literature, Gender Studies, and the College, published Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press, 2011), which was named a John Hope Franklin Center Book.

the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College, has been named the Fromm Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, Art History, Visual Arts, and the College and editor of Critical Inquiry, published Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Sergel Writer-in-Residence, was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to adapt his play, Hunchback Variations , into an opera.

Assistant Professor in Hittitology, the Oriental Institute, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College, received a 2011 – 12 fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, the Committee on African and African-American Studies, the Committee on the History of Culture, and the College, published What Was African American Literature? (Harvard University Press, 2011). He was also named the 2010 – 11 R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library.