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

Associate Professor in English Language & Literature, received the 2014 Push and Kick Award for Excellence in the World of Graphic Books from the Society of Illustrators. She also delivered the keynote address at "Comics, Theory, Practice" at the University of Oregon–Eugene.

Associate Professor in Germanic Studies, co-edited Auftreten: Wege auf die Bühne (Theater der Zeit, 2014) with Juliane Vogel (Universität Konstanz). He also received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Associate Professor in Music, delivered the 2014 Derry Lecture at Western University. He also co-curated a micro-exhibition in conjunction with the Smart Museum of Art's anniversary exhibit, Objects and Voices, with David Wellbery (the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Social Thought).

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.

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 English Language & Literature, received conference support grants from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities, Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, the Center for Theater and Performance Studies, and the Deputy Provost for the Arts for "What Can Performance Philosophy Do?"

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).

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).