Academic positions
Visiting scholar and SSRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University, 2013-2014
Assistant professor, comparative literature, University of Georgia (on leave of absence)
Visiting Scholar, Center of East Asian Studies, University of Southern California, 2020-2021 (SSRC transregional research short-term residency fellow)
Research interests: medieval and early modern globalism and China’s literature, Chinese historiography and travelogues of Southeast Asia and Japan, race and ethnicity, pirates, the sea, and Chinese literature, material and visual culture, late imperial women’s literature, translation studies, and cross-cultural exchange in premodern times.
Education
Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania
Exchange scholar, Yale University
MA, Columbia University
MA, University of British Columbia
BA, Nankai University
