Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Under Review

“Noisy Encounters: Reflections on the Productive Friction between Language and Nonlinguistic Sounds” (under review by PMLA)

2021

Sounding the Ineffable: Third-Century Chinese Whistling as an Alternative Voice,” positions: asia critique 29, no. 2 (2021): 267-290.

2020

Listening Askance with a Seventeenth-Century Chinese Acousmatic Voice,” Ecological Soundings (special issue), Parallax 26, no. 2 (2020): 163-178.

Public-Facing Articles

2025

“Echoing: A Tale of Silence,” The Shanghai Literary Review, no. 9 (in production).

2016

Ventriloquism,” The Chicago School of Media Theory, online glossary compiled by W. J. T. Mitchell. 

Ongoing Projects

Voice Gone Awry: Theorizing Human Expression in Premodern China (book manuscript in progress).

Anatomy of Performance (annotated translations with commentary), co-edited with Judith Zeitlin and Thomas Kelly.

“I Dream, Therefore, I Write: Dream-Generated Poetry and Virtuality in Seventeenth-Century China” (article in progress).