Assistant Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, published The Other Renaissance: Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger (University of Chicago Press, 2014), for which he also won the American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize. He received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Humanism, the Classics, and the Historical," a project with Boris Maslov (Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature).

Assistant Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, organized the seminars The Golden Age Otherwise: Cosmopolitanism and Mexican Cinema, circa 1950 and New Mexican Literary Voices: Luis Felipe Fabre, Susana Iglesias, Valeria Luiselli at UChicago's Katz Center for Mexican Studies.

Assistant Professor in Philosophy, received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Assistant Professor in Philosophy, delivered the keynote address at the Ninth Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at UChicago.

Assistant Professor in Linguistics, received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature, was the Harrington Faculty Fellow in American Studies for 2014–15 at University of Texas–Austin.

Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature, received the Woodrow Wilson Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship to support her research leave in 2014–15.

Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature, received the Governor General of Canada's Gold Medal.

Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature, received conference support grants from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Nicholson Center, and the Center for International Studies to organize the Victorian Studies Symposium with Zachary Samalin (Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature).

Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature, received conference support grants from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities, Nicholson Center, and Center for International Studies to organize the Victorian Studies Symposium with Benjamin Morgan (Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature).