Lecturer in Romance Languages and Literatures, translated Matěj objevuje (Meander Publishing, 2014) and Deník kapitána Arsenia (Meander Publishing, 2014).

the Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, published The Lives of the Novel (Princeton University Press, 2013), which received the American Publishers’ PROSE Award in Literature and was listed as one of the best books in literary criticism of 2013 by The New Yorker.

Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Cinema and Media Studies, published Letters to Dagmar (1920–1926) (Russkii put’, 2014), a collection of writings by Konstantin Bal'mont that he edited with Farida Tcherkassova.

Lecturer in Visual Arts, received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for “Infrastructures of the Comedic,” a collaborative research project with Lauren Berlant (George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature) and Catherine Sullivan (Associate Professor in Visual Arts). He received grants from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Richard And Mary L.

Assistant Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a Norman Cutler Grant for Research Travels from the UChicago Committee on South Asian Studies. He also received a grant from the UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities to organize a conference on his research project “A Worldwide Literature: Jāmī (1414–1492) in the Dār al-Islām and Beyond,” which is supported by UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. Additionally, he was awarded a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from the Zukunftsphilologie Berlin.

Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, edited Bilingual Discourse and Cross-cultural Fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in Medieval India (Institut Français de Pondichéry/École Française d’Extrême-Orient, 2013).