Her research focuses on early medieval Chinese poetry and poetics, literary criticism, and intertextuality. She is the author of Reading Tao Yuanming: Shifting Paradigms of Historical Reception (427-1900) (Harvard University Asia Center, 2008), chief editor of Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook (Columbia University Press, 2014), the translator of the complete poetic works of Xi Kang (3rd c.) in The Poetry of Ruan Ji and Xi Kang (De Gruyter Mouton, forthcoming 2017), and moreover has published numerous articles in leading journals. Her latest monograph project, Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China, explores intertextuality as a mode of reading and principle of writing in medieval China.