Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Civilizations, received a grant from UChicago’s Arts Planning Council and a Chicago Course Connection grant from the UChicago Chicago Studies Program.
the Howard L. Willett Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, published Montaigne: une biographie politique (Odile Jacob, 2014) and Cités humanistes, cités politiques (Presses de la Sorbonne, 2014), which he edited with Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan and Denis Crouzet.
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.
Lecturer in Romance Languages and Literatures, translated Matěj objevuje (Meander Publishing, 2014) and Deník kapitána Arsenia (Meander Publishing, 2014).
Associate Professor in Visual Arts, published a second edition of Black People Are Cropped: Skin Set Drawings, 1997–2011 (JPR/Ringier Press, 2013). He exhibited Claim at the Littman Gallery at Portland State University, Colored Waiting Room at the Mitchell-Innes and Nash Gallery in New York City, and A Long White Cloud at the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts in Auckland, New Zealand. He also performed Cage Unrequited at the Performa 13 Biennial and Pull! in Cleveland, Ohio.
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 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.
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).
