He received his BA with honors from The University of Warwick in Coventry, England and his PhD from Princeton University. He is the editor of the anonymously published 1808 novel The Woman of Colour (2007) and the author of a monograph, Imoinda’s Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 (2012). Currently, he is working on a book about narrative forms of social justice peculiar to eighteenth-century British literature.