Associate Professor in Visual Arts, had a solo exhibit at Galeri Catherine Bastide in Brussels, Belgium. Her collaborative project Afterword (An Opera) was performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She exhibited Afterword Dramaturgies at the Galerie Catherine Bastide in Brussels, Belgium. She also screened Afterword Via Fantasia at Art Basel in Miami, Theatre de la Ville in Paris, Metro Pictures Gallery in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale, AZ, and Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam.

the William H. Colvin Professor in Philosophy, published a paperback edition of Metaphor in Context. He was awarded a Senior Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Hamburg.

Assistant Professor in the department of English Language and Literature, received a 2015–16 research leave fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies for the project “Empire of Neglect: Imagining the Americas in a Liberal Age.”

Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, received UChicago’s Neubauer Faculty Development Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching.

University Professor in Music, premiered several compositions: “Helix Spirals” at Harvard University, “Selene” at Columbia University and the Tanglewood Music Festival, “Klee Musings” at the Norton Concert Series, “Of Being Is a Bird” at Wigmore Hall, “Venus Enchanted,” “Rhea Enchanted,” “Rainbow Bridge,” “Avian Capriccio,” and “Avian Escapades.” She released several CD recordings on the albums “Of Being Is a Bird,” “Dawn to Dusk,” “Full Moon in the City,” “Dialogue,” and “Roots of Evanescence.” She was awarded Chevalier of the Order of Cultural Merit by the Sovereign Prince of Monaco, and the

Associate Professor of Classics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, received a grant from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain: Proyectos del Plan Nacional for “La Memoria Escrita: Texto, Materialidad y Contexto de las Colecciones papiraceas espanolas.” She curated and edited the catalog for the exhibition Pharoah’s Reeds: A Papyrus Journey Up the Nile” in Barcelona. She translated two works: Obras completas de Filón de Alejandría vol.

Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts in English Language and Literature and the Committee on Creative Writing, published Dragonfish: A Novel (WW Norton, 2015). Dragonfish was named as a New York Times Notable Book, the 2016 San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, and the 2016 Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year.

the Anupama and Guru Ramakrishnan Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, delivered the Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture at All Souls College in Oxford.

the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in Philosophy, delivered the keynote address “Courage in the Classroom” at the Kuyers Institute Conference on Education at Calvin College in Grand Rapids Michigan. She was the Distinguished Visiting Faculty at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham in the UK.

the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Romance Languages and Literatures, edited Michel Foucault’s The Punitive Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).