Professor in Visual Arts and the College, presented five solo exhibitions including III Form and Void Full at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hot and Cold All Over at Joseph Carroll and Sons, Boston; Mid-Career Survey at the Museum of Hagen, Germany; All That, and More at the Denver Museum of Art, Colorado; and What Matters at the Museum of North Dakota.

Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, edited and translated A Second Sunrise and Other Poems by R. Cheran in collaboration with Lakshmi Holmström (Navayana, 2012).

the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, published Itihasher janajibon o anyanyo probondho (The Public Life of History and Other Essays) (Ananda Publishers, 2011) and Provincializing Europe (Polish and Turkish translations; 2011). He was the Lansdowne Lecturer at Victoria University, Canada and recieved the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, India.

Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, published For Humanity's Sake: The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2011).

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).

the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Anthropology, and the College, published Makedonistički Studii (Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011), Očerki lakskogo jazyka (Russian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011), and coedited Macedonian Matters: Proceedings of the Seventh Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian Studies with Donald L. Dyer (a special supplement of the journal Balkanista, 2012).

the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Social Thought, and the College, edited Kultur-Schreiben als romantisches Projekt. Romantische Ethnographie im Spannungsfeld zwischen Imagination und Wissenschaft (Könighausen & Neumann, 2012).

Associate Professor in Germanic Studies and the College, coedited Theaterfeinlichkeit und Antitheatralität with Stefanie Diekmann (Fink, 2011).

the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College, had three works commercially recorded: "Shirim L’Yom Tov—Four Festive Songs" on Days of Awe and Rejoicing: Radiant Gems of Jewish Music (Chicago a Cappella, 2011), Perfect Storm for solo viola (Theodore Presser Company, 2011), and "Song and Dance" for saxophone and percussion on Carillon Sky (Impermanence Records, 2011).

Associate Professor in Philosophy and the College, coedited The Possibility of Philosophical Understanding: Reflections on the Thought of Barry Stroud with Niko Kolodny and Wai-hung Wong (Oxford University Press, 2011).