[3] He did his undergraduate studies at Haverford College and received his PhD from Harvard University.
He was awarded the Medal of Merit by the City of Klagenfurt, Austria, for his work on Robert Musil.
He was a finalist and received a special citation for the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for editing and co-translating Musil's The Man Without Qualities.
He was the winner of the 2012 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Gerhard Meier's Isle of the Dead,[4] and in 2016 was awarded the Friedrich Ulfers Prize for his work championing German-language literature in the United States.
[6] A festschrift titled Underlying Rhythm: On Translation, Communication, and Literary Languages.