I was born in Brampton, Canada and did my early Undergraduate and Masters-level education at York University and the University of Toronto. I was very fortunate to have received scholarships to study abroad, first at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, and later at Nanjing University. I completed my PhD in Chinese Buddhism at Columbia University in 2013, and was selected as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. I later completed a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the Asian Studies department at the University of Edinburgh before coming to the University of Manchester in September 2017 as Lecturer in Chinese Culture and History. In the past I have been a visiting scholar or workshop participant at Academia Sinica in Taipei and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. In 2021 I was promoted to Senior Lecturer.

• Council Member (2017-), British Association for Chinese Studies

• Executive Council Member, H-Net Social Sciences and Humanities Network, 2017

• Co-editor and China Book Reviews Editor, H-Buddhism Network, 2014-2017

• Member, UK Association for Buddhist Studies, 2017-

• Member, American Academy of Religion

• Co-chair, Holmes Welch and the Study of Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China Seminar of the AAR (2014-2018)

• Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of Religion and Culture in Asia, University of Groningen

• Co-founder and member emeritus, Asian Religions Research Network, University of Edinburgh

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My main research focus is on the history and culture of China, especially religion, between the 1860s and the 1960s. My published research deals with Buddhism in China, particularly print culture.

Units Taught and Co-Taught

2018-2020

• CHIN 10050 Introduction to Chinese Studies
• CHIN 28572 Introduction to Classical Chinese
• CHIN 30311/2 Religious and Political Ideologies of Modern China
• CHIN 35221 Publishing and Print Media in Modern China
• CHIN 51091 Chinese 9 - Translation Module
• JAPA 13222 Empire and Culture in East Asia

2017-2018

• CHIN 10050 Introduction to Chinese Studies
• CHIN 35221 The History of Print Culture in Modern China
• CHIN 28572 Introduction to Classical Chinese
• JAPA 13222 Empire and Culture in East Asia

Administrative Responsibilties:

• Residence Abroad Tutor and Visiting Students' Officer, Chinese Studies, January 2018 - August 2019
• Undergraduate Programme Director for Chinese Studies, January 2019 -

Contact me at: [email protected]