He holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the Université de Montréal. His fields of research and publication cover cultural globalization, translation studies and comparative literature. His most recent publications (forthcoming in the spring/summer 2008) deal with discourses of cultural mobility in Canada (forthcoming, Interface) and the intercultural theme in contemporary road movies (forthcoming, CiNéMAS). He is currently editing with Professor Walter Moser (Canada Research Chair in Literary and Cultural Transfers, University of Ottawa) a collective volume on culture and mobility in Brazil and Canada.