He focuses on the history of philosophy and literature in South Asia, with a particular emphasis on Buddhism. He also moonlights as a translator of Kashmiri poetry, and some of this work has been featured in Another Chicago Magazine, Spolia, Almost Island, and Aufgabe (Litmus Press). He has been threatening to publish a book of translations from Kashmiri, Make Humans Again, and is under contract to produce a representative translation of the utterances of Lal Ded)