Professor Zhang is currently a fellow of Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Macau. He is also Associate Professor (by courtesy appointment) of Center for Chinese History and Culture at UM.

He has reviewed books and articles which were published by various publishers, including Columbia University Press, Harvard University Press, China Publishing House 中華書局, and China Social Sciences Press 中國社會科學出版社. He is an editorial board member of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (A&HCI and SSCI, Q1, the only Nature journal in arts and humanities), a guest editor for the Journal of Chinese Humanities 文史哲（英文版）(an English-language extension of a top Chinese journal, published by Brill), an editor and executive board member of South China Quarterly: Journal of University of Macau 南國學術-澳門大學學報 (a CSSCI journal), and an editorial board member of 古典學志 (sponsored by Beijing Normal University).

Professor Zhang has reviewed competitive grants, such as the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, and served as an external reviewer in the promotion and tenure committee for American universities and as the Ph.D. dissertation external reviewer for top research universities, such as the University of Hong Kong. Professor Zhang was also invited to serve as an evaluator of the QS World University Rankings.

With respect to service at the university level, Professor Zhang has been elected as a representative to the University Senate, the Academic Quality Assurance Committee, the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, and the Staff Housing Committee. At the faculty level, as Assistant Dean for Academic Programme, he is responsible for annual programme review, external programme review, academic search for the rank of Instructor/ Senior Instructor positions, new programme establishment, PG examination committees formation, and other tasks assigned by the Dean’s office. He was elected as chair of the Faculty and Staff Enhancement Committee. He also serves as a member of the Faculty Management Team, the Faculty Graduate Studies Committee, and Faculty Executive Committee. At the department level, he serves as Graduate Programme Coordinator, chair of the Graduate Studies Committee, chair of the External Evaluation Committee, and as a member of the Academic Committee and Executive Committee.

past and present: Association for Asian Studies; American Oriental Society; American Comparative Literature Association; Modern Languages Association; Early Medieval China

Professor Zhang has been a visiting scholar, fellow, or received external grants to conduct research at Princeton University, Harvard University, Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the Library of Congress, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Fudan University. He has contributed to several government-sponsored research projects in the U.S., Canada, and China, including projects sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Chinese National Key Programme in Humanities and Social Sciences 國家社科基金重大項目.

Professor Zhang was the recipient of 2021 FAH Excellence in Research Award at UM.

In the past five years, Professor Zhang has published or has forthcoming the five books or book-length journal special issues listed below:

Lore and Verse: Poems on History in Early Medieval China (State University of New York Press, 2022), sole author. https://sunypress.edu/Books/L/Lore-and-Verse

Echoes of a Foreign Land: Research of the Interaction between Literature and History in Recent Sinology 異域迴聲：晚近海外漢學之文史互動研究 (Peking University Press 北京大學出版社, 2024), sole author. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/aVKBDV0aOEaMvXtgMVl_UQ

The Interrelation between Poetry and History in Medieval Chinese Literature 中古文學中的詩與史 (Fudan University Press 復旦大學出版社, 2020), co-editor. http://www.fudanpress.com/showdetail.asp?bookid=13440

Special issue of Journal of Chinese Humanities 文史哲 (英文版)“New Interpretations of Medieval Chinese Literature” (Brill, 2022), editor. https://brill.com/view/journals/joch/7/3/joch.7.issue-3.xml

Special issue of Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities“Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Literary and Cultural Studies,”co-editor. https://rupkatha.com/v14n1.php

In addition to the books and journal special issues listed above, Professor Zhang has recently published or has forthcoming articles and reviews about Chinese literature and culture in such A&HCI journals as Early China (Cambridge University Press, volume 46, 2024), Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (Edinburgh University Press), Early Medieval China, Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (Duke University Press), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Studies (Cambridge University Press), Journal of Asian Studies (Duke University Press), and Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy. These are all Q1 journals based on the SJR 2023 or 2022 reports.

He has recently published or has forthcoming numerous Chinese articles about premodern Chinese literature and Sinology studies in such CSSCI journals as Journal of Peking University 北京大學學報, Journal of Tshinghua University 清華大學學報, Journal of Renmin University of China 中國人民大學學報, Journal of Wuhan University 武漢大學學報, Journal of Chinese Literary Studies 中國文學研究, Journal of Ming-Qing Fiction Studies 明清小說研究, Journal of Chinese Classics Studies 古典文獻研究, Literary Studies 文學研究, International Sinology 國際漢學, Chinese Books and Sinology 漢籍與漢學, Liyun Journal 勵耘學刊 (Beijing Normal Univ.), Studies of Overseas Chinese Texts 域外漢籍研究集刊 (Nanjing Univ.), The Humanities Journal 人文論叢 (Wuhan Univ.), Contemporary Foreign Language Studies 當代外語研究 (Shanghai jiaotong Univ.), Yangtze Academics 長江學術 (Wuhan Univ.), and Research in the Traditions of Chinese Culture 國學學刊 (AMI, Renmin Univ. of China). All the articles are available via CNKI 中國知網. His book chapters on Six Dynasties poets and Yuan dynasty literature have been included in books published by University of California at Berkley Press, China Publishing House 中華書局, and Fudan University Press.

Professor Zhang is equally dedicated to pedagogy and research and has published articles on teaching Chinese literature and culture in AsiaNetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts and Education about Asia (an AAS journal).