His research focuses on the intersections between literature, aesthetics, and natural philosophy in the Renaissance, in particular with regards to the history of the senses. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and held a Harper-Schmidt Fellowship in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. His articles have appeared in Dionysius, Renaissance Quarterly, Sixteenth Century Journal, English Literary Renaissance, and the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and his first book, The Forgotten Sense: Meditations on Touch, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018.