Professor of Practice in the Arts in English Language and Literature, Creative Writing, and the College, published a revised edition of Flung Clear (Salt Publishing, 2010).

Associate Professor in Classics, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, received the Brooks-Warren Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism for The Animal Part: Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Computer Science (Chair), Linguistics, and the College and Senior Fellow in the Computation Institute, was appointed chair of linguistics and language sciences at the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.

Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Composition, Music, and the College, received the Union of Polish Composers Prize.

Professor in English Language and Literature (Chair) and the College, published Living Liberalism (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

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.

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

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.

Lecturer in English Language and Literature and the Humanities Collegiate Division, published Everyone Remain Calm (Joyland/ECW Press, 2011).