I graduated with a First Class Honours in English Literature from the National University of Singapore, and received my PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies from the University of Warwick in 2021 under NIE's Overseas Graduate Scholarship. Prior to this, I taught English Literature at several secondary schools and junior colleges in Singapore. My teaching and research interests centre on modern and contemporary literature, literary theory, 20th Century continental philosophy, and film studies.

I have published essays on writers such as Don DeLillo, James Joyce, John Banville, Wallace Stevens, Graham Swift, J.M. Coetzee and Ian McEwan, philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricoeur, Georges Bataille, and Emmanuel Levinas, and directors such as Alexander Sokurov, Bela Tarr, Carlos Reygadas, and Terence Davies. My work has been published in venues such as English Literary History, Modern Fiction Studies, Narrative, Poetics Today, Style, Symploke, and Textual Practice.

I am the author of 3 books of literary criticism - "Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity" (Palgrave, 2022), "Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Order, Form, and Creative Un-Doing" (Routledge, 2023) and "Understanding Barbara Kingsolver" (University of South Carolina Press, 2024). I am also the editor of "Wallace Stevens in Theory" (Liverpool University Press, 2023). As of 2023, I am Associate Editor of The Wallace Stevens Journal.

I am at work on two book projects: a fourth book on the Irish novelist and short story writer Mike McCormack, and a fifth on the Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and Heidegger.