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. Laing Distinguished Service Professor of French Literature in Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and Social Thought) and co-organized "Formalism/Idealism: Comparative Literary History, 1860–1960" at the UChicago Center in Paris with Haun Saussy (see below).