He earned his Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania after completing his Master of Arts at Villanova University and his Licenciatura at the Universidad de Cádiz, Spain. A specialist in early modern Hispanic culture, his research interests focus on Habsburg imperial policy and propaganda, their effects on issues of gender, ethnicity and nation building, and their expression through performance. His publications on these topics have appeared in scholarly journals such as Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, Analecta Malacitana, Nueva revista de filología hispánica, and Hispanófila, among others.