 He has also published theoretical works on Fredric Jameson, Jacques Derrida, and Noam Chomsky.Wise received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside in 1992.He taught on Fulbright awards at the Université de Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso (1996–97) and the University of Jordan, Amman (2001-2003).