This was followed by Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China (Harvard University Asia Center, 2001), which explores methodologies and perspectives within Chinese scholarship.
Additionally, Saussy and Perry Meisel contributed introductions and textual notes as editors to the reissue of Wade Baskin's translation of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (Columbia University Press, 2011),[6].
In 2016, he published The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies (Fordham University Press), which subsequently won the Scaglione Prize[7] for Comparative Studies from the Modern Language Association.
His articles cover topics ranging from the imaginary universal languages of Athanasius Kircher to Chinese musicology, the Qing dynasty novel, Honglou meng, and the history of oral-poetry theory.
His editorial responsibilities include serving as co-editor for Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews and Critical Inquiry.
He is also a member of the editorial boards for Zhongguo Xueshu / China Scholarship, Comparative Literature, Warring States Papers, Modern Philology, Cross-Currents, and Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, among others.