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.