Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was awardeed a 2012–13 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities. He also received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for Global Literary Networks, a collaborative digital humanities research project with Richard Jean So and Tom McEany, Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at Cornell University, that examines the worldwide production, diffusion, and reception of literature.