Among his recent courses are: Existentialism in Philosophy and Literature, Film Philosophy, Rethinking the Sublime, Methods in the Humanities 1, Introduction to Film Studies, and Introduction to Philosophy 1.

He is also a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities of the VU University Amsterdam. His work analyzes explorations of meaning and engagement in contemporary literature and film as critical reaffirmations of existentialist ideas. He is the author of Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer: A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary American Literature (Bloomsbury, 2015), and editor of Reading David Foster Wallace Between Philosophy and Literature (Manchester University Press, 2022). His research has appeared in different academic journals and collections (see below). Currently, he is finishing a book titled Wallace’s Existentialist Intertexts: Comparative Readings with the Fiction of Kafka, Dostoevsky, Camus and Sartre. His next project will be on ‘Reality, Identity and Others in the Work of Contemporary Women Directors: Analyses of the Films of Mati Diop, Alice Rohrwacher, Céline Sciamma, and Maryam Touzani.’

Selection of recent publications

• ‘“My Whole Life I’ve Been a Fraud”: Resisting Excessive (Self-)Critique and Reaffirming Authenticity as Communal in David Foster Wallace’s “Good Old Neon” and Albert Camus’s The Fall.’ In: Humanities vol. 12 (2023) 1.  
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• ‘“What All She’d So Painfully Learned Said About Her”: A Comparative Reading of David Foster Wallace’s “The Depressed Person” and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground.’ In: Reading David Foster Wallace Between Philosophy and Literature, edited by Allard den Dulk, Pia Masiero and Adriano Ardovino, 113-137. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. 
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• ‘“I Am in Here”: A Comparative Reading of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis’. In: English Literature vol. 8 (2021).
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• ‘Jonathan Safran Foer.’ In: The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980–2020, edited by Patrick O’Donnell, Lesley Larkin, and Stephen Burn, 495-501. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021.
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• ‘New Sincerity and Frances Ha in Light of Sartre: A Proposal for an Existentialist Conceptual Framework.’ Film Philosophy vol. 24, no. 2 (2020): 140-161. (Nominated for the 2021 Film Philosophy Annual Article Award)
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