His first book, Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel quel. was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2003. His second book, Sinographies: Writing China is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press. As a UCLA Global Fellow, Hayot plans to complete his book entitled, On Chinese Pain: An Artificial History. The book will be innovative because its goal is "to understand the West’s belief in Chinese cruelty as part of a larger set of relationships" which he refers to as "Chinese pain." He has taught classes in modernism, critical theory and literary analysis, and comparative literature. Hayot speaks French, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. Nathan Jensen