His research concerns the history and epistemology of literature and focuses on discursive dynamics in Early Modern times, in particular on the emergence of ethnography and anthropology and their impact on philosophical Modernity. He is currently working on two publication projects on the Jesuit Joseph-François Lafitau, who discovered American ginseng in New France and who published in 1724 the first “ethnography” of the Iroquois in two richly illustrated volumes.