University Professor in Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, published The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies (Fordham University Press, 2016) and co-edited and translated A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden): Selected Writings of Li Zhi (Columbia University Press, 2016). He was a short term visitor at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.

Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, delivered the keynote address “Breath’s Compass and the City as Nostalgic Formation” at the conference Poetics of Place: Performing Selves in the Beyond Cities at the University of Montreal. Her book Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice received an honorable mention from the Modernist Studies Association Annual Book Prize Competition. She was awarded a Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for the Arts and Scholarship for the collaborative project “The Data We Breathe” with UChicago’s Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, delivered the keynote lecture at the Annual Aharoni Day Symposium at Tel Aviv University. He received a grant from the National Science Foundation for his project “CRESCAT: A Computational Research Ecosystem for Scientific Collaboration on Ancient Topics” and received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the project “Economic Analysis of Ancient Trade.”

Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, had two solo exhibitions at the Instituto Centrale per la Grafica and Magazzino in Rome, Italy. He was awarded the Sam Hunter Emerging Artist Fund award from the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis College. He had three pieces acquired by Istituto Central per la Grafica, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, and Fondazione Memmo. He received a 2015–16 research leave fellowship from the American Academy in Rome.

Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, delivered the keynote lecture at “DeMATERIALIZATIONS” at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland.

Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, published Firm-and-Even’s Records from Beyond the Seas: The Second Collection of A Different View of Ancient History (Shnaghai Guji chubanshe, 2016).

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, received a research leave fellowship from the American Council for Learned Societies for his project “Light without Heat: Shades of Feeling in the Age of Scientific Revolution.”

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, published Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network (Columbia University Press, 2016).

Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature, delivered the keynote address “Horror Old and New: Nakata Hideo’s Ringu (1998) between J-Horror and Hibakusha Cinema,” at the “Why All the Fuss about the Body” conference at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN.

Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, co-curated the exhibition Envisioning South Asia: Texts, Scholarship, Legacies at the UChicago Special Collections Research Center.