加州柏克萊大學東方語文博士，澳洲雪梨新南威爾士大學 (UNSW, Sydney) 教授、中文系主任。中文論著包括〈海峽兩岸的認同問題：中華民國一百周年紀念與賴聲川作品〉（收入彭小妍主編，《跨文化情境差異與動態融合：臺灣現當代文學文化研究》，2013）、《中英對照魯迅舊體詩》（春風文藝出版社，2016）、《微妙的革命：清末民初的「舊派」詩人》（三聯書店，2018）等。英文著作有Warriors of the Spirit: Lu Xun’s Classical-style Essays of the Japan Period (UC Berkeley, forthcoming); Lu Xun: a Research Biography (forthcoming); The Subtle Revolution: Poets of the ‘Old Schools’ during late Qing and early Republican China (UC Berkeley, 2006); “The Diaspora and Postmodern Chinese Film in Taiwan and Hong Kong: Framing Stan Lai’s 'The Peach Blossom Land,’” in Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu, ed., Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender (U of Hawai’i Press, 1997); The Lyrical Lu Xun: a study of his classical-style verse (U of Hawaii Press, 1996); Wit and Humor from Old Cathay (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1986); 主編Late-Qing Living Texts: Zhang Taiyan and Lu Xun in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 7: 3 (Sep. 2013, Brill).