I am the author of Living On After Failure (Duke UP, 2025), Touching Literature, or the Experience of the Limit (Cornell UP, 2026), The Deconstruction of Sex (Duke UP, 2021, with Jean-Luc Nancy), L’Existence Prépositionnelle (Galilée, 2019), and The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject (Fordham UP, 2014), which won the MLA 23rd Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies.
I consider myself a theorist of the present contemporary, and I situate my works at the intersection of theory in all its iterations – from its instantiation as French or continental thought to more recent affect theory, race theories, and world literature theories –, literature, and culture.
Currently, I am Full Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University, an appointment that I took up in 2024.
Prior to joining Emory, I was President’s Assistant Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore from 2017 to 2021, before being promoted to Associate Professor in 2021, and then made Full Professor in 2026. Before my career at NUS, I was a Newton International Fellow in the Dept of French at the University of Cambridge from 2015 to 2017.
I received my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, where I wrote my dissertation under the direction of Dominick LaCapra, Jonathan Culler, Timothy Murray, and Jean-Luc Nancy.
In 2018, I was named Franke Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale. I was also a recipient of a National Humanities Center Fellowship in 2022/23.