Assistant Professor, Dept. of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, Fall 2008-Present

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies Program, The University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, Fall 2007

Ph.D. in East Asian Studies at Princeton University, 2007.  Dissertation: “Imitation, Remembrance and the Formation of the Poetic Past in Early Medieval China”

Student, Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1998-1999

M.A. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at University of Colorado at Boulder, 1998.  Thesis: “ ‘Ch’ang-men yuan’: A Study in Medieval Yüeh-fu Poetry”

Student, Inter-University Program in Chinese Language Studies, Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, Summer 1996

B.A. with Honors at Lewis and Clark College, 1993. 

Study-abroad program participant, Guangxi Teachers College, Guilin, China, Fall-Winter 1990-1991

“Re-collecting the Literary Past: Liu Shuo’s 劉鑠 (431-453) Imitation Poetry”, Western

          Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Tucson, Arizona, October, 2009

“Commemorating Literary Perfection: Xie Lingyun’s (385-433) Imitative Remembrance of Ying Yang (d. 217),” American Oriental Society-Western Branch Meeting, Portland, Oregon, October 2008

“Imitation as Interpretation in Early Medieval Chinese Poetry,” Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, February 2008

“Emulation as Evaluation: A Study of the Relationship between Ban Jieyu's ‘Song

          of Lament (yuan shi)’ and Jiang Yan's (444-505) Imitation,” American Oriental Society

          Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, March 2007

“Configuring the Poetic Past: Imitative Verse and the Formation of the Tradition in the

           Six Dynasties,” Stanford University, Stanford, California, January 2007

Panel “Text, Rhetoric and Metatext in the Chinese Tradition,” Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Tucson, Arizona, October 2009.