Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and the College, was awarded a 2011–12 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Writing the Mughal World: Studies in Political Culture with coauthor Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Columbia University Press and Permanent Black New Delhi, 2012) and was awarded the Sir Jadunath Sarkar Gold Medal for Pre-Modern South Asian History from the Asiatic Society in Kolkata.

Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts in Visual Arts and the College, presented the solo exhibition Inside us all there is a part that would like to burn down our own house at Ratio3 in San Francisco.

Assistant Professor in Visual Arts and the College, was the artist-in-residence for Chicago Ideas Week 2011 and his work "The Top Grossing Film of All Time, 1 x 1" was aquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York; he also presented a solo exhibition at the Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles.

Professor in Visual Arts and the College, presented Color Jam, an installation at the corner of State Street and Adams under the auspices of the Chicago Loop Alliance; Wide Eyes Smeared Here Dear at Musée d’art Moderne in Saint-Etienne Metropole, France; and Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood at Frac des Pays de la Loire in Nantes, France; she also published Grab grassy this moment your I's (1301PE 2011), a catalog of her recent installation at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis.

Senior Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, published Advanced Russian Through Film: A Collection of Transcripts and Exercises (Second Edition; Hermitage Publishers, 2011).

Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and the College, published a paperback edition of his 2009 book Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works, with coeditor Victoria Kirkham (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and edited De' gesti eroici e della vita maravigliosa della Serafica S. Caterina da Siena, a critical edition of work by Lucrezia Marinella (Longo Editore, 2011).

Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, coedited The Effect of Palimpsest: Culture, Literature, History with Ryszard Nycz (Peter Lang, 2011) and published The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture (Indiana University Press, 2011) for which she recieved an Honorable Mention for the Kulczycki Book Prize from the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

the Chester D. Tripp Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was the co-principal investigator for "The Theravada Civilizations Project: Future Directions in the Study of Buddhism in Southeast Asia," funded by the Luce Foundation.

Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College, published Fyodor Dostoevsky (Reaktion Books, 2012) and edited Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary: Soviet Children's Books and Graphic Art (University of Chicago Library, 2011); he also coedited Vision and Communism: Viktor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual Culture with Matthew Jesse Jackson, Christopher P. Heuer, Tumelo Mosaka, and Stephanie Smith (The New York Press, 2011).