現在の研究関心は、日本文化、宗教、環境、特に動物や樹木の交差にある。日本文学と文化、特に前近代の小説、詩、パフォーマンス、視覚文化を専門とする。現在、は著書Seeing the Unseen: Demons, Gods, and Other Worlds in Japanを執筆中。また、Performance, Media, and Intermediality in Japanという本では、日本における口述、パフォーマンス、印刷文化の複層的な関係を探る。
1996―現在 コロンビア大学 日本文学・文化 教授
2021―現在 ドナルド・キーン日本文化センター所長
1983 コロンビア大学 東アジア言語文化学部 日本文学科 博士号取得
1977 ミシガン大学 極東言語文学部 日本文学科 修士課程修了
1974 コロンビア大学（ニューヨーク州）英文学・東洋学専攻 卒業（優等位）
What is an Author? Transmission, Ownership, and Collectivity (Iwanami Shoten, 2021), co-editor with Tomi Suzuki, Komine Kazuaki, Toeda Hirokazu
Views of Nature in East Asia (Higashi ajia no shizenkan), editor, volume four of Studies in East Asian Culture (Higashi Ajia bunka kōza, Bungaku tsūshin, 2021)
Shiki no sōzō: Nihon bunka to shizenkan no keifu (Japanese edition of Japan and Culture of the Four Seasons, translated by Kitamura Yuika, published by Kadokawa shoten, 2020.
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Tales (Columbia University Press, 2018), co-edited with Keller Kimbrough.
Cambridge History of Japanese Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2015), chief editor and major contributor.
Reading The Tale of Genji: The First Millennium, co-edited and translated with Thomas Harper (Columbia University Press, 2015).
Waka in the World: Language, Community, and Gender (Sekai e hiraku waka: gengo, kyōdōai, jinndaa). Edited with Kanechiku Nobuyuki, Tabuchi Kumiko, and Jinno Hidenori. Benseisha, 2012. Bilingual edition.
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts. Columbia University Press, 2012.
The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales. Edited with introduction by Haruo Shirane. Translated by Burton Watson. Columbia University Press, 2010.
Envisioning The Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production. Editor and author. Columbia University Press, 2008.
Traditional Japanese Literature, Beginnings to 1600, An Anthology. Editor and author. Columbia University Press, 2007.
Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary. Columbia University Press, 2007.
Classical Japanese, A Grammar. Columbia University Press, 2005.
Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology. Editor and author. Columbia University Press, 2002.
Inventing the Classics: Canon Formation, National Identity, and Japanese Literature. Eo-editor with Tomi Suzuki. Stanford University Press, 2001.
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho. Stanford University Press, 1997.
The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji. Stanford University Press, 1987.
日本学士院名誉会員（2022年）
NIHU（米国国立人文科学研究所）日本研究部門国際賞（2019年）
山片蟠桃賞（2019年）Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons and globalization of Japanese culture
上野五月記念日本文化研究奨励賞（2010年）Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho
石田波郷賞（2001年）
アメリカ俳句協会賞（1998年）Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho
角川源義賞（1993年）The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji
