He earned his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988. He has published articles on the theory and practice of translation in Roman Antiquity and on modern translations of the Latin liturgy of the Catholic Church. He translated a Latin commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics by Peter Martyr Vermigli, a 16th-century Protestant philosopher and theologian. He is currently preparing a Latin and English text of the Libellus of Paolo Giustiniani, a Camadolese monk and reformer of the 15th century.