He specializes in Medieval literature and critical and cultural theory, especially the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan and the biopolitical theory of philosopher Giorgio Agamben. A graduate of Syracuse University, he earned his MPhil and his PhD from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He teaches freshman writing, Great Works of Literature, as well as a variety of electives including a survey of British literature, Chaucer, Medieval romance, and Boccaccio. He has developed a course he titles "Zones of Hell: Dante’s Inferno, Levi’s Auschwitz," which he offers every other year. He has been an English department student advisor for the past ten years.