He is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Literature at Duke University. He has published several books and many articles on history of criticism and theory, the history of British and European Romanticism, modernism and postmodernism. continental philosophy, and the connections among literature, philosophy, and science. His books include In the Shadow of Hegel (University of Florida Press, 1993), Complementarity: Anti-Epistememology After Bohr and Derrida (Duke University Press, 1994), and a collection of essays, co-edited with Barbara H. Smith, "Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory" (Duke University Press, 1997)