Associate Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, was named a member of the American Antiquarian Society.

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, was selected as a participant in the First Book Institute of the Center for American Literary Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, a new program designed to identify and support junior scholars whose projects show exceptional promise.

the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, edited Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (German quarterly magazine of literature and intellectual history). He was also named a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Southeast Asian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Assistant Professor in Music and the College, received funding from the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Department of Music, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies to support the symposium "Benjamin Britten: Spheres of Influence."

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the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Germanic Studies and the College, published a Spanish translation of The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (University of Chicago Press, 2006), which he coauthored with Kenneth Reinhard and Slavoj Žižek.

Assistant Professor in Art History and the College, received the Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant from the College Art Association for her collaboration with coauthor Mary Miller, The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court: Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak (University of Texas Press, 2013). She was also awarded the College Art Association's Meiss/Mellon Author’s Book Award to support publication of The Cacaxtla Paintings (University of Texas Press, forthcoming 2015).