He teaches courses on medieval and Renaissance literature, the history of carnival, and contemporary German culture. His first book, Theater, Culture, and Community in Reformation Bern, 1523-1555 (Brill, 2002), examined the role of carnival and biblical plays in creating cultural community in Bern, Switzerland following local Protestant reform. He is currently engaged in an investigation of medieval staging practices in the context of lay piety, tentatively titled “Staging Salvation: Devotional Spectatorship in Early German Theater.”