the Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, received the 2015 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize for The Lives of the Novel (Princeton University Press, 2013). The monograph was an International Society for the Study of Narrative Winner and shortlisted for the 2014 Christian Gauss Prize from the Phi Beta Kappa Society; it was also released in Italian and French translations. He co-organized "Writers and Critics" with Daniel Desormeaux (Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures) at UChicago and also co-organized "Prosody Today: Comparative perspectives on the study of verse" at UChicago with Boris Maslov (Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature).