He received his B.A. and M.A. from Johns Hopkins University and his doctorate from Brown University. His primary research interests include modernism, poetics, intellectual history, and interdisciplinary studies. His two book manuscripts Figures of Time (on the figural temporalities of modernist poetry) and The “Super Schoolmaster” ([with Robert Scholes] on the pedagogical guises of Ezra Pound) are presently under review. Currently, he is working on two other book projects: the first offers an extended look at poetic apostrophe, and the second is on literary misreading.