Brian  is currently a high school English teacher at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred heart in Bethesda, Maryland. He also holds the position of Lecturer at the University of Maryland where he teaches courses in literature, writing, film and digital studies. He has also taught at Loyola University, Trinity Washington University, and Georgetown Day School. 

For his doctoral research project, titled "Books as Archives: Archival Poetics in Post-1980 Experimental Literature" (2020), Brian developed a formal and historical poetics of "multimodal book-archives," an experimental mode of contemporary writing that tells stories through the collection and representation of reproduced texts and other artifacts. 

His research and writing has been published at Electronic Book Review, Frontiers of Narrative Studies, Orbit: A Journal of American Literature, and in an edited collection called Global Perspectives on Digital Literature.

He is currently working on a monograph called Archiving the Future: Science Fiction and the Archive, which examines the different roles that inscription technologies and archiving have played in works of science fiction from 1800-present.

He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with his wife, son, and two cats.