the Addie Clark Harding Professor in Germanic Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, Theater and Performance Studies, and the College, served as the Wertheim Lecturer at Indiana University–Bloomington and as faculty of the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard.

the Helen A. Regenstein Professor in English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, and the College, received the MLA Prize for Distinguished Scholarly Edition for Elizabeth I: Translations, 1544–1589, which he coedited with Janel Mueller, the William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in English Language and Literature and the College.

Professor in Philosophy and the College, published translations of two earlier books, Thinking of Others (in Spanish) and High and Low Art (in Slovak) in 2012.

the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, published Art and Exhibition (in Korean; Moonsachul Publishing, 2011) and A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture (Reaktion Books and Princeton University Press, 2012).

Assistant Professor in Visual Arts and the College, presented a solo exhibition at the University of Chicago's Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.

the Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Xing yu xiang: Zhongguo gudai wenhua shi lunwenji 興與象:中國古代文化史論文集 (Arousal and Images: Essays on Ancient Chinese Cultural History; Shanghai Guji chubanshe, 2012).

Professor of Practice in the Arts in English Language and Literature, Creative Writing, and the College, published The Ode and the Gate of Gathering (Crater Press, 2011).

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published Local Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Equinox Publishing, 2012) and coedited Imagined Beginnings: The Poetics and Politics of Cosmogony, Theogony and Anthropogony in the Ancient World with Christopher Faraone (special issue of the Journal for Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 2012).

Assistant Professor in Art History and the College, published Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England (Yale University Press, 2011), which was shortlisted for the ACE/Mercer’s International Book Award.

Lecturer in Creative Writing and the College, was awarded a fellowship from the Howard Foundation at Brown University.