He received his Ph.D. from the Literature Program at Duke University in 1991. He is the author of Still Life in Real Time: Theory after Television (Duke 1994) and co-editor of Reading the Shape of the World: Towards an International Cultural Studies (Westview, 1996). He is currently working on two projects: World in Debt, an exploration of contemporary cultural theory in the context of globalization and the critique of neoliberalism; and Remains to be Seen, a set of essays on the materiality of visual media.