He is currently interim director of the Language & International Trade program. His research and teaching interests include 19th-21st Century French and Francophone Literature and Culture, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature, art, media, theory, culture, economics, ethics, and society. He is the author of Musique et poétique à l’âge du symbolisme (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005), French-American Relations: Remembering D-Day after September 11 (University Press of America, 2008) and Francophone Women Writers: Feminisms, Postcolonialisms, Cross-Cultures (Lexington Books Publishing, 2011). His most recent research has focused on the importance of the humanities and the relation between university and society.