He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. He has published articles on Ford Madox Ford's novels The Good Soldier and Parade's End, Vera Brittain's WWI memoir Testament of Youth, and the elegiac wartime poetry of W.B. Yeats. He has an article forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity on representations of labor and the body in David Jones's epic WWI poem In Parenthesis. He teaches British Literature II, Modern and Contemporary British Literature, Victorian Literature, Science Fiction, Literature and Film, and Composition.