the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Comparative Literature, Divinity, and the College, published Saints: Faith without Borders (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and Seeing Double: Baudelaire’s Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in Social Thought, Philosophy, and the College, published Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy (Page-Barbour Lectures; University of Virginia Press, 2012) and a paperback edition of his 2010 book Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Professor in Art History, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College, published The Passionate Triangle (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and won a faculty-in-residence grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Professor in Classics and the College, served as a visiting scholar at the American Numismatic Society.

Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan (Stanford University Press, 2011).

Lecturer in Creative Writing and the College, had her collection of short stories, Everyone Remain Calm, chosen as an Editor’s Pick on CBS Chicago’s Best New Chicago Books.

Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was awarded 2011–12 research leave fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Guggenheim Foundation.

the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in Art History and the College, published Art and Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, c. 2500–c. 150 B.C.E. (Thames and Hudson, 2011).

the William H. Colvin Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, Art History, and the College, published Kinematograf v Peterburge 1896–1917 with coauthor Anna Kovalova (Cinema in Saint Petersbug 1896–1917; Seanse Publishing House, 2012).

Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Pre-History of J-Pop (Columbia University Press, 2012) and won the Modern Language Association's Scaglione Prize for a translation of a scholarly study of literature for Natsume Sōseki's Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings, which he translated in collaboration with Atsuko Ueda and Joseph A. Murphy.