Lecturer in Visual Arts, received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for “Infrastructures of the Comedic,” a collaborative research project with Lauren Berlant (George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature) and Catherine Sullivan (Associate Professor in Visual Arts). He received grants from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Richard And Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, and the Center for Interdisicplinary Research on Germanic Literature and Culture to support the symposium Unsuspending Disbelief: The Subject of Pictures. He also received grants from UChicago’s Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry and the Arts Council's Course Arts Relief Fund to support his Mental Space seminar. He exhibited Snow at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, USSA 2012 at the KW Institute in Berlin, and participated in the eighth Berlin Biennale.