His teaching and research focuses on gender and sexuality, queer theory, psychoanalysis and critical theory. He also very much enjoys teaching a course on Jesus films. He is the author of Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure (Chicago, 2011) and co-editor of Sexual Disorientations: Queer Affects, Temporalities, Theologies (Fordham, 2017) and Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion (Fordham, 2015). He is currently working on a monograph exploring questions of constitutive violence relying on the work of Leo Bersani, Jean Laplanche, Lee Edelman, and Georges Bataille and a co-edited volume on the relevance of Lee Edelman's work for the study of religion. In his spare time, he watches far too many CW shows and attempts to keep his dogs, Dino and Bertha, happy.