Professor in Music, the Committee on the History of Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College, received a senior fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English Language and Literature and the College, published The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud  (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Lecturer in English Language and Literature and the Humanities Collegiate Division, published The Bonegatherer (Moria Books, 2011).

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College and director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, was elected to a three-year term as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.

Associate Professor in English Language and Literature and the College and director of the Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, received an MLA honorable mention for his first book, The State as a Work of Art (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, Creative Writing, and the College, published Voyager (University of California Press, 2011). He also won the Mark Ashin Prize for Teaching in the College.

the Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, the Divinity School, and the College and editor of Modern Philology , published The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton (University of Chicago Press, 2011). He also served as the Lloyd Davis Memorial Visiting Professor in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Queensland.

Professor in the Oriental Institute, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College, received a service award from the Middle East Studies Association.

Lecturer in the Humanities Collegiate Division, published Big Girl, Small (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011). Her novel Repeat After Me (Overlook Press, 2009) won ForeWord magazine’s Book of the Year Award.

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).