He received his PhD from Stony Brook University (SUNY), an MA from San Francisco State, and a BA from Oberlin College. His work has recently appeared in the Journal of the African Literature Association, Atlanikos, and the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism. “The Price of Pleasure,” an essay on sex and economics in the contemporary South African novel, is forthcoming as a chapter in Masculinities in African Literary and Cultural Texts.