the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Comparative Literature and the Divinity School, delivered the keynote address at UChicago’s Humanities Day in 2013.
University Professor in Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for History, Philology, and the Nation in the Chinese Humanities, a joint project with Judith Farquhar (Professor in Anthropology and Social Sciences) to bring in visiting scholars who can help provide a deeper understanding of the way humanistic scholarship is practiced in China.