Work Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University (January 2026–present)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University (October 2023–January 2026)
Instructor, Yale Prison Education Initiative (June 2023–August 2023)
Education
Ph.D. in English, Yale University 2023
M.Phil. in English, Cambridge University, 2014
B.A. in English and Philosophy, Columbia University, 2013, summa cum laude
Research Interests
US literature and intellectual history since 1945, critical theory, the philosophy of history
Courses
Western Literary Theories (1 and 2); Research Methods in the Humanities; Advanced Spoken English; Advanced English Listening
Publications
“From Satire to Utopia: Political Writing after Neoliberalism,” in Holly Parker and Tommaso Villa, ed., Neoliberalism, Affect, and Twenty-First Century Culture (Bloomsbury, 2026)
“The Problem of the Future: Fredric Jameson and the Dilemmas of Left Literary Studies,” Dibur: Journal for Comparative Literature and Culture 18–19 (2025): 145–164
“The Satisfactions of Satire: Neoliberalism, Populism, and the Dilemmas of Political Writing,” Modern Language Quarterly 86.3 (2025): 303–333
“Reason to Hope? Arendt, Foucault, and the Escape from Politics into History,” Journal of the Philosophy of History 18.3 (2024): 259–289
“A Dead End of History? C. L. R. James and the Problem-Space of American Trotskyism,” Amerikastudien/American Studies 69.1 (2024): 5–26
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