Life … is the silence of an encounter.
— Christian Bobin, La Nuit du Cœur
My work is transversal. It crosses periods, disciplines, and languages — Shakespeare and Deleuze, Milton and Islam, Renaissance painting and David Lynch — drawn less to borders than to crossings: how texts travel, how images think, how theory and literature transform one another.
Associate Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, I direct the Medieval and Renaissance Studies minor and serve as Series Editor of the Anthem Press Series in Renaissance Literature and Culture. I hold a PhD from Lancaster University and have held appointments at the University of Liverpool and the American University of Beirut, with visiting positions at UCLA, the University of Balamand, and Aix-Marseille University, and a research affiliation at the Catholic University of Paris.
From Shakespeare’s Spiral and David Lynch in Theory to Deleuze: Spaces of Change and Challenge, Shakespeare and the Future of Theory, Reading Milton through Islam, and a forthcoming monograph with Palgrave, my books pursue a single critical gesture — opening the canon to its others, and making space for voices marginalized in history.
My research moves along six connected paths: British literature and iconography, comparative literature, the visual arts, geo-philosophy, Abrahamic theology and the theology of alterity, and the encounters of East and West.