An interdisciplinary scholar of religion and literature, he specializes in the study of Judaism, from rabbinic literature through modern Jewish thought and literature in the United States and Europe. He is especially interested in the uncanny power of religious traditions to determine putatively secular institutions, discourses, and categories in so-called Western modernity, as well as in philosophical and political problems concerning the concepts of tradition, authority, canon, and interpretation. He is currently completing his first book, tentatively titled Secular Wounds, which draws upon the interdisciplinary resources of Jewish philosophy, literary theory and criticism, postcolonial and indigenous thought, and psychoanalysis to advance a post-Holocaust and more specifically post-colonial critique of the concept of group identity (racial, religious, ethnic, national). This project reads works by French-, German-, Arabic-, and English-writing authors including Jacques Derrida, Paul Celan, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, Mahmoud Darwish, Edward Said, Judith Butler, and others, as well as biblical and rabbinic texts, in light of multiply directed, intersecting, and overlapping historical and global scenes of settlement and resistance. In addition to academic journal articles, book chapters, and reviews, he writes for wider audiences in venues such as Jewish Currents, Parapraxis, The New Republic, and elsewhere.