He received his PhD from Princeton University in the Department of Comparative Literature and is a graduate of St John’s College, Annapolis. From 2009-2012, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, where he taught in the Introduction to Humanities Program. He has also studied at Yale Divinity School, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Warburg Institute (London), Middlebury Language Schools, and Princeton-in-Beijing.