He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from University College London in 2007. Prior to Seoul National University, he worked at Kyung Hee University and Cambridge University. He has published Postcolonial Studies and the Literary with Palgrave Macmillan (2010), as well as articles in collections and journals, including Paragraph, Journal of Narrative Theory, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Explicator, Research in African Literatures, Modern Drama, and Forum for Modern Language Studies.