An intellectual historian of early and medieval China, her research has dealt primarily with the history and philosophy of emotions, cognition, self-cultivation, and aesthetics in pre-1200 philosophical, religious and literary texts. Recent publications include “Early Confucian Perspectives on Emotions” (Dao Companion to Classical Confucian Philosophy, Springer 2014) and “Self-cultivation as Praxis in Song Neo-Confucianism” (Modern Chinese Religion. Value Systems in Transformation, Brill 2014). Her book, The Emotions in Early Chinese Philosophy, is in preparation and will be published by Oxford University Press.