 His PhD thesis, ‘’Towards a 21st Century Expressionist Art Criticism’’, took an activist approach to its subject, arguing for a return to art criticism’s roots as an essentially creative, literary discipline.A revised version of the thesis was later published in the form of a collection of essays and “ficto-criticism,” "Bad Writing".In 2019, he moved to Shanghai, where he currently teaches at the Institute for Cultural and Creative Industry at Shanghai Jiaotong University.