加拿大阿尔伯达大学教授，1991-1994, 芝加哥大学，英文文学系 (University of Chicago, Department of English), 学士 (Bachelor's of Arts); 1998-2000, 哈佛大学，比较文学系 (Harvard University, Department of Comparative Literature), 硕士 (MA); 2000-2003, 哈佛大学，比较文学系 (Harvard University, Department of Comparative Literature), 博士 (PhD); 

2003-2006, 国立中央大学（台湾），英文系 (National Central University, Department of English), Assistant Professor; 2006-2007, 国立中央大学（台湾），英文系 (National Central University, Department of English), 副教授 (Associate Professor); 2007-2014, 阿伯达大学（加拿大），东亚系 (University of Alberta, Department of East Asian Studies), 助理教授 （Assistant Professor); 20014-2018, 阿伯达大学（加拿大），东亚系 (University of Alberta, , 副教授 (Associate Professor); 

Dao and Sign in History: Daoist Arche-Semiotics in Ancient and Medieval China (SUNY Press, forthcoming 2018)

“Zhuangzi’s ‘Three Words’: Text and Authority,” Dao Companion to Zhuangzi. (Springer, forthcoming 2018)

“Zhuangzi and Laozi: An Intertextual Approach,” Dao Companion to Zhuangzi. (Springer, forthcoming 2018)

“中西文学研究方法的结构冲突” [Structural Conflicts in Chinese and Western Literary Research Methodologies], 《外语研究》 [Foreign Languages Research] 2016.6: 89-93.

Daniel Fried, ed. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature--Peking University Journal of World Literature and Comparative Literature joint special issue, "Neither Here Nor There--(Non-)Georgraphical Futures of Comparative Literature. 2014

"符号林七贤：魏晋时期的意识形态党派纷争与当代的社会符号学" [Seven Sages of the Semiotic Grove: Wei-Jin Ideological Factions and Contemporary Social Semiotics]  Journal of Jilin University. February 2014

“Compulsive Hoarding: Psychopathologies of Print, Phenomenologies of Text.” Culture, Theory, Critique. 55.3 (2014): 342-64.

“On Saying Something Other,” Journal of Comparative Literature and World Literature (Peking University) August 2013: 77-88.

“What’s in a Dao? Ontology and Semiotics in Laozi and Zhuangzi,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy. 2013

“A Never-Stable Word: Zhuangzi’s Zhiyan and ‘Tipping-Vessel’ Irrigation,” Early China 31 (2007): 145-70. [actual publication date spring 2010, pre-dated to fill gap in journal publication following editorial change]

“Riding off Into the Sunrise: Genre Contingency and the Origin of the ‘Chinese Western’” PMLA 122.5 (October 2007): 1482-98.

“Defining Courtesy: Spenser, Calepine, and Renaissance Lexicography” Review of English Studies 58 (June 2007): 229-44.

“Beijing’s Crypto-Victorian: Traditionalist Influences on Hu Shi’s Poetic Practice” Comparative Critical Studies 3.3 (Autumn 2006): 371-89.

“The Politics of the Coleridgean Symbol.” Studies in English Literature 46.4 (Autumn 2006): 763-79.

“Of Boars, Rhapsodes, and the Uses of Culturalist Error.” Comparative Literature 57.4 (Autumn 2005): 312-27.

“Interrogative Ecocriticism and the Rhetoric of Global Warming.” Tamkang Review 35.3-4 (Spring-Summer 2005): 307-26.

“A Bloody Absence: Communist Narratology and the Literature of May Thirtieth.” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and Reviews 26 (2004): 23-53.

“Milton and Empiricist Semiotics.” Milton Quarterly 37.3 (October 2003): 117-38.