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Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Princeton University, 1990; M.A., Chinese Literature, University of Michigan, 1985.

Research Interests: Chinese poetic culture, comparative poetics, and classical Chinese literature.

Appointments: Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1995–present; Director, Forum on Chinese Poetic Culture, 2010–present.

Publications: Author of The Matrix of Lyric Transformation: Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 1996).

Editorial Contributions: Editor, Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture.