Lecturer in Chinese in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, published 晚明天主教翻譯文學箋注 (Christian Literature in Chinese Translation, 1595–1647: An Anthology with Commentary and Annotations) (Taipei: Academia Sinica, 2015) and Guxin Shengjing 古新聖經賀清泰 (A Vernacular Translation of the Old and New Testaments by Louis Antoine de Poirot [1735–1813]) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2015).

Associate Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. He also published The Body Incantatory: Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism (Columbia University Press, 2014).

Associate Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, co-edited Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, Vol. 15: Performance in Japanese Literature (Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2014) with Reginald Jackson (University of Michigan) and Michael Bourdaghs (Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations). He received Innovation Grants from the UChicago Knowledge Lab for projects in their Metaknowledge Research Network.

Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a Chicago Course Connection grant from the UChicago Chicago Studies Program.