Associate Professor in English Language & Literature, delivered the Josephine Gessner Ferguson Lecture at Tulane University.

Associate Professor in English Language & Literature and Creative Writing, published Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice (Columbia University Press, 2014). She received the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Translation Award for Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli (University of Chicago Press, 2012). She was the Bogliasco Foundation's Fellow in Literature and received a Library Research Grant from the Getty Research Institute.

Associate Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. He also published The Body Incantatory: Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism (Columbia University Press, 2014).

Associate Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, co-edited Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, Vol. 15: Performance in Japanese Literature (Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2014) with Reginald Jackson (University of Michigan) and Michael Bourdaghs (Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations). He received Innovation Grants from the UChicago Knowledge Lab for projects in their Metaknowledge Research Network.

Associate Professor in Art History, was awarded the UChicago's 2014 Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. She also curated "War Portfolios in Teaching" in conjunction with the Smart Museum of Art's anniversary exhibit, Objects and Voices.

Associate Professor in Art History, was awarded a research leave fellowship for 2014–15 from Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and was elected Councilor of the Medieval Academy of America. She delivered the plenary address at the Medieval Materiality conference at the University of Colorado–Boulder. Kumler curated "Fragments of the Medieval Past" with Claire Jenson (graduate student in Art History) in conjunction with the Smart Museum of Art's anniversary exhibit, Objects and Voices.

Associate Professor in Art History, published The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central (University of Texas Press, 2015). She received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Committee on Creative Writing and the Department of English Language & Literature, published Dragonfish: A Novel (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015). He was named the Bread Loaf Fellow in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 2015.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Humanism, the Classics, and the Historical," a project with Rocco Rubini (Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures). He also co-organized "Prosody Today: Comparative Perspectives on the Study of Verse" at UChicago with Thomas Pavel (the Gordon J.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, received a 2014–2015 research leave fellowship from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities.