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. Long also received Global Midwest Initiative funding from the Mellon Foundation for "Global Poetry: Chicago Modernism at the World Scale."