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

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.

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 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.

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.

Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, delivered the keynote lecture at the “Pedro Paramo: 60 años” conference at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico.

the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Germanic Studies, published The Weight of Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy (Oxford University Press, 2015). A German translation was published of his 2011 book The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty.

Associate Professor in Visual Arts, exhibited The Master Index at Expo Chicago, All the Ways at Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles, and Soliloquy: Jason Salavon at the Public Trust in Dallas, Texas. Two of his pieces were acquired by the Baltimore Art Museum, and the UC–Berkeley Art Museum.

Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, received grants from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium, Center in Hong Kong, and Center in Beijing for his project “The Past For Sale.”

the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, delivered keynote lectures at Whitechapel Gallery in London, Cambridge University in Cambridge, and at SOCINE (the Brazilian Society for Cinema and Audiovisual Studies) in São Paulo, Brazil.