W. J. T. Mitchell
the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature and Art History, published a Polish translation of What Do Pictures Want? and a Turkish translation of Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society and was awarded the College Art Association’s Teaching Award in Art History. He received a grant from the UChicago Humanities Visiting Committee for research and publication and also received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society to codirect the research project “Art and Public Life” with Theaster Gates.