He received his Ph.D. in 1998 from UCLA, and most of his research is related to his book-in-progress called The Medieval Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology in Piers Plowman and its Contemporaries. He has also published “Desire, Violence, and the Passion in Fragment VII of The Canterbury Tales: A Girardian Reading” (1999) and “Dante’s Quest for Home” (2000). Website