I am a professor, critic, poet, and translator. I teach in the Department of English at the University of Louisville, where I am working on a book on philosophical skepticism and literary impersonality, as well as a collection of poems.

I received my Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago. I am also a former editor of Chicago Review. 

Work of mine has appeared in Literary Imagination, Los Angeles Review of Books, Modern Philology, PopMatters, nonsite, Chicago Review, Harvard Review, Verse, and elsewhere. Between 2002 and 2008 I was a regular contributor to Flak Magazine.