I am currently an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill University located in Montreal, Canada. I specialize in early modern Chinese literature and culture, with particular interest in the intersections between writing, performance, materiality, and gender. My first major project develops clothing and costuming into a critical lens to study Chinese literature and history. Part of the project is my first book (Staging Personhood) which discusses theatrical costuming in 17th-century China when the Manchu rulers regulated hairstyles and clothing based on ethnicity and gender.

Currently I am studying crime, law, and literature in premodern China. The central piece is a monograph that explores forensic examinations of the human body in the crime literature of early modern China. 

I teach a wide range of courses on premodern and modern China as well as Asian diaspora. Recently, I am developing a research and teaching project about overseas students and global education.