He received his BA from Transylvania University and his MA and PhD from the University of Iowa. His publications include "The Dreaming Quipucamayoq: Myth and Landscape in Wilson Harris' The Dark Jester" in Atlantic Studies, October 2004; "Archaeology of Reconciliation: Ciaran Carson's Belfast Confetti and John Kindness's Belfast Frescoes" in Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Fall 2003; and "'Relief Data Unreliable': Mapping Amazonia" in Passages: Interdisciplinary Journal of Global Studies, Volume 2 Number 2, 2000. He spent 2001-2002 on a Fulbright Award in Ghana.