Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature, delivered the keynote address “Horror Old and New: Nakata Hideo’s Ringu (1998) between J-Horror and Hibakusha Cinema,” at the “Why All the Fuss about the Body” conference at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN.

University Professor in Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, published The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies (Fordham University Press, 2016) and co-edited and translated A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden): Selected Writings of Li Zhi (Columbia University Press, 2016). He was a short term visitor at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.

Associate Professor in Comparative Literature, published Pindar and the Emergence of Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and co-edited Persistent Forms: Exploration in Historical Poetics (Fordham University Press, 2015).

University Professor in Comparative Literature, co-wrote Introducing Comparative Literature: New Trends and Applications (Routledge, 2015) with César Dominguez (University of Santiago de Compostela) and Darío Villanueva (Real Academia Española). He co-edited Intersections, Interferences, Interdisciplines: Literature with Other Arts (P. I. E. Peter Lang, 2014) with Gerald Gillespie (Stanford University).

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Humanism, the Classics, and the Historical," a project with Rocco Rubini (Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures). He also co-organized "Prosody Today: Comparative Perspectives on the Study of Verse" at UChicago with Thomas Pavel (the Gordon J.