Professor Emeritus in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published the translation The Plum in the Golden Vase or Chin P’ing Mei Volume Four: The Climax (Princeton University Press, 2011).
Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was awarded 2011–12 research leave fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Pre-History of J-Pop (Columbia University Press, 2012) and won the Modern Language Association's Scaglione Prize for a translation of a scholarly study of literature for Natsume Sōseki's Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings, which he translated in collaboration with Atsuko Ueda and Joseph A. Murphy.
the Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Xing yu xiang: Zhongguo gudai wenhua shi lunwenji 興與象:中國古代文化史論文集 (Arousal and Images: Essays on Ancient Chinese Cultural History; Shanghai Guji chubanshe, 2012).
Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan (Stanford University Press, 2011).
