Education

B.A. Brown University (1991)
Ph.D. Harvard University, East Asian Lang & Civilization (2004)

Areas of Expertise

Medieval Chinese literary culture, manuscript culture, memory and memorization

Scholarship/Creative Work

Editor, Tang Studies

Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China.  Harvard University Asia Center Press, 2010. (Winner of the 2012 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, pre-1900 category)

Review of Graham Sanders, Words Well Put: Visions of Poetic Competence in the Chinese Tradition, The University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 78:1, pp. 221-222.

「唐代长安诗歌的流传」(“The Circulation of Tang Poetry in Chang‘an”), in Chen Pingyuan 陈平原, et al., eds.《西安：都市想象与文化记忆》(“Xi’an: Metropolitan Imagination and Cultural Memory”), Beijing University Press, 2009.

“The Lady and Her Scribes: Dealing with the Multiple Dunhuang Copies of Wei Zhuang’s ‘Lament of the Lady of Qin’,” Asia Major, vol. 20 (2007), pp. 25-73.

”Literary Collections in Tang Dynasty China,” T’oung Pao, vol. 93 (2007), pp. 1-52.

Editorial committee member, 汉语900句 (Everyday Chinese), Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2006.

Awards, Fellowships & Grants

2012 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, pre-1900 category, for Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China.

Professional Affiliations

American Oriental Society, Association of Asian Studies, Early Medieval China Group, T'ang Studies Society

Committees

Committee on Priorities and Resources (2012-2014)