He received his Ph.D. from University of Virginia in 2008 and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell between 2008-09. His publications have appeared in Contemporary Literature, Minnesota Review, Ariel, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, A Companion to Modernist Poetry, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry, and Post-Ireland? Essays on Contemporary Irish Poetry. In 2015, his book, Global Anglophone Poetry: Literary Form and Social Critique in Walcott, Muldoon, de Kok and Nagra, was published with Palgrave’s series in Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. He is currently working on a new project on the intersection of race and publics in contemporary Black and Minority Ethnic British poetry.