Education
University of Chicago. San Francisco State University. University of California, Berkeley.
University of Chicago. San Francisco State University. University of California, Berkeley.
He teaches in the Department of English at Uppsala University, in Sweden. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago in Tutorial Studies in 1975, an Master of Arts in English Literature at San Francisco State University in 1989, and a Doctor of Philosophy in English from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked under the supervision of Stephen Greenblatt. In 2011, he left his position as a Senior Lecturer In Renaissance Studies at Lancaster University to take up a Chair as Professor of English Literature at Uppsala University.
His most recent book is at once an autobiography and a work of cultural criticism: Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption (Winchester: Zero Books).
