He is the author of Kitchen Sink Aesthetics, which reimagines British kitchen sink realism as a defining model of spatialized class expression. He also edited Locating Classed Subjectivities, a volume comprising a sweeping exploration of space and class across three centuries. His various articles, essays, and anthologized chapters center on similar themes, as does his public scholarship for The Los Angeles Review of Books

His future projects include a monograph on nostalgia as a literary mode, another on identity fetishism, a conceptual project on tunnels and movement (literally) through space and matter, another on esoteric performance art, and an article on decision-making in states of precarity.

As Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, he researches and teaches contemporary literature, aesthetics, and critical theory, with a keen eye on how space and environment shape identity and how cultural production and artifacts register such forces. Recent course titles include “The (New) British Novel,” “Nostalgia in British Writing,” “Working-Class Literature,” “British Social Realism,” and “British Horror Fiction.” He has also designed and implements seminars and studies on an array of authors like Zadie Smith, J.G. Ballard, and Kazuo Ishiguro.