He completed doctoral studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research focuses on early modern Iberian theater with a particular focus on the ideological function of cultural production and the role played by Spanish authors in the intellectual history of the West during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These interests have generated current projects on representations of wildness in the cultural imagination of Renaissance and Baroque Spain. Collaborating with co-editor John Slater (Univ. of Caifornia, Davis), he also has a forthcoming edition of two dramatic works by playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca (titled, En la vida todo es verdad y todo mentira and Sueños hay que verdad son) that is in press with LinguaText.