2016 Ph.D. Comparative Literature. Department of Literature. University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Advisor: Richard Cohen. PhD. Dissertation Title: “Encounter Dialogue: The Literary History of a Zen Buddhist Genre.”
2008 M.A. Comparative Literature. Magna cum laude. State University of New York: Stony Brook (SBU).
2007 M.A. American Studies. Magna cum laude. University of Antwerp, Belgium.
2006 M.A. Germanic Languages and Literatures. MA Dissertation Title: “Jacques Hamelink: Kinksteen van Ch’in (2003): Een monografie.” Summa cum laude. Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium.
2004 B.A. Germanic Languages and Literatures. Cum laude. VUB.
Professional Experience
2019- Assistant Professor of Religious Studies. Duke Kunshan University (DKU), Kunshan, China.
2017 – 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation, Flanders (FWO). “Imaginations of Emptiness: Twentieth-Century Zen Buddhist literature as Utopian Narrative and Spiritual Autobiography.” Centre for Buddhist Studies. Department of Languages and Cultures. Ghent University, Belgium.
2016-2017 Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion. Department of Religion. St. Olaf College. Northfield, MN. USA.
2014-2015 Graduate Research Assistant. Assistant to the Chair, Stephanie Jed. Literature Department. University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
2014 Associate-in Lecturer. Making of the Modern World Writing Program. UCSD.
2009-2016 Teaching Assistant. Making of the Modern World Writing Program. UCSD.
2009 Research Assistant Dutch Literature. Department of Linguistics and Literatures, VUB.
