Professor in the Department of French and the Department of Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and adjunct professor at the International College of Chinese Language and Culture, East China Normal University. He is the editor-in-chief of French Forum, a peer-reviewed A&HCI journal in the United States, and the founder and co-editor of the Cinéma et Culture book series with Peter Lang International Publishing Group. He is a renowned scholar specializing in modern and contemporary French poetry, fantastic literature, film history and theory. His representative monographs include Formules de la poésie: études sur Ponge, Leiris, Char et du Bouchet (1999), La lettre tue. Spectre(s) de l’écrit fantastique (2009) and Ponge et le cinéma (2019). His recently edited books include Screening the Paris suburbs: from the silent era to the 1990s (2018), The Cinema of Louis Malle: Translantic Auteur (2018) and Louis Malle dans tous ses états (2022). His latest sole-authored work Le giallo, ou l’enfance de l’art is forthcoming.
