In 2011, he got his Ph.D. in English and Medieval Studies from the University of California-Berkeley, where his dissertation work and publications on the biblical plays of the Chester cycle earned him numerous honours, including the Medieval Academy of America's Schallek Award and the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society's Palmer Award. Before coming to the U of T, he spent two years as an Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College, where he continued his research on the Chester plays, which will take its final shape as his first book -- Play Texts and Public Practice in the Chester Cycle, c.1421-1607. The book investigates how the unscripted festive practices of Chester's citizens shaped, and were shaped by, the dramatic scripts they left behind.