He obtained his PhD from the University of Limerick, Ireland. He has published numerous articles on identity formation as well as pieces on William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Lydia Lunch, and the Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol. Book chapters include’The Undermining of a West Briton: The Deconstruction of Joyce’s Gabriel Conroy, Japanese Concept of the Self, Mapping Hybrid Identities: A Matrixing Model for Transculturality, and Designing Identity: An Attempt to Manufacture Singaporeans. He is the editor of the book From Conflict to Recognition: Moving Multiculturalism Forward, and a regular contributor to the thematic magazine One Imperative.BOOK P/RE/VIEW