In 2011 he received his PhD from the James Joyce Research Centre and the Department of English at University College Dublin. He is a former Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Cork, and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of James Joyce, Urban Planning, and Irish Modernism: Dublins of the Future (Palgrave, 2014) as well as numerous articles on Joyce, modernism, and contemporary Irish and British literature.