the Henry Crown Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published Ugaritic and the Origins of the West-Semitic Literary Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2012), Une bibliothèque au sud de la ville***. Textes 1994–2002 en cunéiforme alphabétique de la maison d’Ourtenou, Ras Shamra-Ougarit XVIII with coauthors Pierre Bordreuil and Robert Hawley (Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, 2012), and coedited Grammatical Case in the Languages of the Middle East and Europe: Acts of the International Colloquium Variations, concurrence et evolution des cas dans divers domains linguistiques with Michèle Fruyt and Michel Mazoyer (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 64; Oriental Institute, 2011).