He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are queer aesthetics in the African Diaspora, the erotic, LGBT art and activism in Caribbean cultures, African-based spiritual traditions in the Americas, subjectivity and community building. He is currently completing his first book Erotic Subjects: Art & Activism in the Queer Caribbean. And he is also a performance poet and budding installation artist.