• Guest editor of “Photography’s Places.” Special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique 18, no. 3 (2010).
• “Poor and Blank: History’s Marks and the Photographies of Displacement.” Representations 109 (2010).
• “Shadow Photographs, Ruins, and Shanghai’s Projected Past.” PMLA 122:1 (2007).
• “Shanghai Savage.” positions: east asia cultures critique 11, no. 1 (2003).
• “Lishi de henji, zonghe meijie: Zhang Xinmin de Liukeng, zai ciyu yu sheying zhijian” [Historical traces, composite media: Zhang Xinmin's Liukeng, between word and photograph]. Translated by Yang Xiaoyan. Shijie (Beijing), no. 8 (2002).

• “Shadow Modernism: Photography and Writing in Shanghai, 1925-1935.” Book manuscript.

Chinese visual and material culture and literature; image, medium and art theories; Chinese and global modernisms; space, place, travel, and landscape; ethnographic, historical, and literary narrative

• MLC Major Seminar (Fall 2011)
• Introduction to Premodern Chinese Literature and Culture (Fall 2011)
• Cities and the Country in Modern Chinese Culture (Spring 2011)
• Chinese Visual Culture: Medium and Materiality (Spring 2011)
• Powers of Images (Fall 2010)
• Chinese Landscapes (Fall 2010)

• Townsend Center Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2006-2007.
• Junior Faculty Research Grant, Academic Senate Committee on Research, University of California, Berkeley, 2004-2005.
• McKnight Summer Fellowship for the Arts and Humanities, University of Minnesota, 2002.
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2000-2001.
• University of Chicago Globalization Project, Regional Worlds Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 1998-1999.
• Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, 1996-1997.
• Committee for Scholarly Communication with China, Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1995-1996.
• Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1989-1994.