Professor Wright earned a diplôme d’études approfondies degree in art history and archaeology—a tertiary education degree higher than a master's degree but lower than a doctorate—and a doctoral degree from the Sorbonne in Paris. He has taught at a number of universities in France and the United States and has worked in many museums, including the Louvre. He is the author of a book on Proust and medicine, Du discours medical dans a la recherché du temps perdu, and has been invited to give lectures at various conferences in the United States, Europe and Asia. His research focuses on the construction of identity in Europe and North Africa and has published one other book, L’Antiquité moderne.