Research Professor, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica

Adjunct Professor, Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature National Chengchi University

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Chinese, National Tsing Hua University

Former positions and educational career

2015: Visiting Professor,  Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures University of California, Davis

2006–2014: Associate Research Professor, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica

2006–2014: Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature National Chengchi University

2013: Visiting Professor, Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea Università Ca‘ Foscari (Venice, Italy)

2004–2006: Croft Associate Professor of Chinese (Tenured), Department of Modern Languages, University of Mississippi

2002–2003: Visiting Professor, Center for Literary Theory Studies, Beijing Normal University

1998–2004: Croft Assistant Professor of Chinese, Department of Modern Languages, University of Mississippi

1997–1998: Assistant Professor of Chinese, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Fairfield University

1996: Ph.D., Yale University, East Asian Languages and Literatures

1991: M.A., University of Colorado at Boulder, Oriental Languages and Literatures

1985–1989: Junior Research Fellow, Institute of Literature, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

1985: B.A., Fudan University (Shanghai, China), Chinese Literature

Major Awards

2013–2019: Ministry of Science and Technology Research Grant (Taiwan)

2017: Distinguished Talent Award, Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan)

2007–2013: National Science Council Research Grant (Taiwan)

2010: Distinguished Talent Award, National Science Council (Taiwan)

2004: Faculty Research Fellows, University of Mississippi

2001: Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Grant, US Dept of Education

2001: Researcher/Scholar Recognition Award, University of Mississippi

2001: Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Mississippi

2000: CSCC National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China

2000: Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Mississippi

1999: NEH Summer Stipends

1999: Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Mississippi

1995: Whiting Fellowship

1995: Henry Hart Rice Fellowship, Yale Center for International and Area Studies

1995: John F. Enders Fellowship for Dissertation Research

1991–1995: Yale University Fellowship

1994–1995: Pacific Cultural Foundation Research Grant

1994: Pre-Dissertation Research Grant, Yale Center for International and Area Studies

1993: Cheng-Lee Fellowship for Summer Research, Yale University

1992: Research Grant, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University