the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in Music, was the composer in residence at Steans Music Institute and Weekend of Chamber Music Concerts. She published Hallel for Organ (Theodore Presser Company, 2014). Her composition “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory—String Quartet No. 3” was premiered by UChicago resident performers the Pacifica Quartet and her “Birds of Paradise” was premiered by the Chicago Flute Club.
the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Germanic Studies, delivered the Tanner Lectures in Human Values at the University of California, Berkeley.
the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, served as president of the Henry James Society. He published Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (University of Georgia Press, 2013), which he edited with Tess Chakkalakal.
the Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature, received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for the summer seminar George Herbert and Emily Dickinson.
Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, received a course development grant from the UChicago Center for Disciplinary Innovation for Technologies of Visualization: Florence Then and Now.
Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship for 2013–14. He also received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for “Knowing and Doing: Text and Labor in Asian Handwork,” a collaborative research project with Donald Harper (Centennial Professor of Chinese Studies in East Asian Languages and Civilizations).
the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Comparative Literature and the Divinity School, delivered the keynote address at UChicago’s Humanities Day in 2013.
