He received his PhD at the University of Toronto and was a post-doctoral fellow at Emory University. He is the author of American Metempsychosis: Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry (Fordham UP, 2012) and has published in journals such as The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and The Journal of the History of Ideas. His involvement in Digital Yoknapatawpha is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.