Martin Kern, Joanna and Greg’84 P13 P18 Zeluck Professor in Asian Studies. He also serves as co-editor of T'oung Pao, is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the president of the American Oriental Society (2023–2024). At Princeton, he directed the university-wide collaboration "Comparative Antiquity: A Humanities Council Global Initiative" (2018–2022); he also co-directs the Princeton-Venice Summer School in Classical Chinese and Classical Japanese/Kanbun. At Renmin University of China (Beijing), he directs the “International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures,” a center committed to the global study of antiquity in comparative contexts.

　　His numerous publications address topics across all genres of ancient Chinese literature, including poetry as cultural memory and as performance in political and religious ritual; authorship in poetry, philosophy, and historiography; writing and orality; methodological issues in manuscript studies; the history and early formation of Chinese poetry, including in the light of recently discovered manuscripts; early literary thought; style and rhetoric in philosophy and historiography; and various others more.