He is currently a senior editor at In geveb and one of the site's founding editors. He completed his doctoral studies in Jewish Literature at The Jewish Theological Seminary where he wrote his dissertation on the convergence of Jewish American writing and the institutions and markets of world literature. His academic work appears in Prooftexts, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and American Literary History. He has held fellowships from Washington University in St. Louis, the YIVO Institute, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and has an MA in Hebrew Literature from Hebrew University.