He has previously taught at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. A specialist in South Asian religious traditions with particular interests in Indian religious, literary, and material history, his writing focuses on Sanskrit religious literature. He has published articles on topics such as Indian numismatics and literary and religious aspects of the Upanishads. He is the editor of Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle (Anthem Press) and the author of the forthcoming Creating a Sage: The Literary Life of Yajnavalkya (State University of New York Press), which traces the “literary life” of the ancient Indian ritualist and sage, Yajnavalkya, through roughly one thousand years of literary history.