Curriculum Vitæ
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EDUCATION
2012 Ph.D., Philosophy, Purdue University (May 2012)
Dissertation: “Toward a Philosophy of Difference: From Derrida to Deleuze”
Committee: Daniel W. Smith (Chair), Leonard Lawlor, Christopher Yeomans, Arkady Plotnitsky
2006 M.A., Philosophy, The University of Memphis
2004 B.A. (summa cum laude), Philosophy, Eastern Illinois University
Honors Thesis: “Nietzsche and Eternal Return: A Critical Analysis of the Greatest Weight”
Faculty Advisor: Gary E. Aylesworth
2000 A.A. (summa cum laude), Psychology, Lake Land College
RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS
Areas of Specialization
Nineteenth through Twenty-First Century Continental Philosophy; Philosophy of Film; Philosophy of Literature
Areas of Competence
History of Philosophy; Aesthetics; Philosophy of Religion; Social and Political Philosophy
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2022-Present Chair, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Gettysburg College
2021-2022 Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Gettysburg College
2018-2021 Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Gettysburg College
2012-2018 Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Gettysburg College
2011-2012 Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University Kokomo
2008-2012 Instructor of Record, Purdue University
2007-2008 Teaching Assistant, Purdue University
2003 Online Course Facilitator, Lake Land College
RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS
Authored Books
Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative, (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).
Derrida’s Voice and Phenomenon: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide, written for the Edinburgh Philosophical Guides series, (Edinburgh University Press, 2014).
Edited Books
Living Currency, followed by Sade and Fourier, by Pierre Klossowski, edited with Nicolae Morar and Daniel W. Smith, (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017).
Between Foucault and Derrida, edited with Yubraj Aryal, Nicolae Morar, and Christopher Penfield, (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace: Philosophical Footholds on Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, edited with Jonathan Beever, (Northwestern University Press, 2016).
Biopower: Foucault and Beyond, edited with Nicolae Morar, (the University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Journal Special Issue
Deleuze and Guattari Studies: Fifty Years of The Logic of Sense, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 2022), Guest Editor.
Deleuze and Guattari Studies: The Fiftieth Anniversary of Difference and Repetition, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2020), Guest Editor with Chas. Phillips and Daniel W. Smith.
Audio Lecture Series
The Devil: A Biography. 21 Lectures. Learn25. October 2021.
Video Courses
The Films of Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood Outsider. One Day University. February 2023.
Franz Kafka and Metamorphosis: The Absurdity of Everyday Life. One Day University. August 2022.
Journal Articles
“Free-Range Philosophy: Modes of Philosophical Analysis Across the Discipline … And Across the Road,” with Steven Gimbel, in The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook, Vol. 2, No. 1 (December 2021), 191-202.
“The Writer is a Sorcerer: Literature and the Becomings of A Thousand Plateaus,” in Deleuze and Guattari Studies: A Thousand Plateaus Turns 40, Vol. 14, No. 3 (forthcoming, Fall 2020).
“Metaphor, Metamorphosis, and Meaning: ‘All the Possibilities of Language’ in Difference and Repetition,” for Deleuze and Guattari Studies: The Fiftieth Anniversary of Difference and Repetition, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2020).
“Something to do With a Girl Named Marla: Eros and Gender in David Fincher’s Fight Club,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Vol. XVIII, No. 3 (Fall 2019), 576-599.
“The Poststructuralist Broom of Wallace’s System: A Conversation Between Wittgenstein and Derrida” (6,500 words), Kritikos: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text, and Image, Vol. XV (Fall 2018).
“Living in the Land of the Dead: George Romero, Gilles Deleuze, and the Question of the Zombie,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Vol. XIII, No. 2, Special Issue: The Cultural and Political Life of Zombies (Summer, 2014), 58-81.
“Becoming-Other: Foucault, Deleuze, and the Nature of Thought,” invited peer-reviewed contribution, Foucault Studies, No. 17, Special Issue: Foucault and Deleuze (April, 2014), 36-59.
“All Things in Mind: Panpsychist Elements in Spinoza, Deleuze, and Peirce,” with Jonathan Beever, Biosemiotics, Vol. VI, No. 3 (April, 2014), 351-365.
“The Madness of God: The Schizosign in Shutter Island,” Film and Philosophy, Vol. XVIII (Winter, 2013), 124-145.
“Categories of Life: The Status of the Camp in Derrida and Agamben,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XLV, No. 4 (July, 2008), 161-179.
“Duration and Immanence: The Question of A Life in Deleuze,” Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Philosophia, LIII, 1-2, (2008), 71-84.
Book Chapters
“Time, Truth, and the Power of the False,” Deleuze and Time, ed. Rob Luzecky and Daniel W. Smith, (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), 213-233.
“How One Becomes What One Is: The Nietzschean Polytheology of Joker (2019),” in Theology and Batman, ed. Matthew Brake and Chuck Robertson, (Lexington Books, 2022), 219-236.
“Will God Forgive Us?: Interdependence and Self-Transcendence in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed,” in ed. Jonathan Beever, Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence, (Lexington Books, 2021), 43-66.
“The Gifts of Death: Visions of Sacrifice in the Worlds of Terrence Malick,” in A Critical Companion to Terrence Malick, ed. Joshua Sikora (Lexington Books, 2020), 199-216.
“In G.O.D. We Trust: The Desert of the Religious in The Broom of the System,” in David Foster Wallace and Religion: Essays on Faith and Fiction, ed. Michael McGowan and Martin Brick (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019), 69-81.
“Introduction: Why Biopower? Why Now?,” with Nicolae Morar, in ed. Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar, Biopower: Foucault and Beyond, (the University of Chicago Press, 2016), 1-25.
“All the World is Shining, and Love is Smiling Through All Things: The Collapse of the Two Ways in The Tree of Life,” in ed. Jonathan Beever and Vernon W. Cisney, The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace: Philosophical Footholds on Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, (Northwestern University Press, 2016), 213-232.
“Introduction: In the Midst of the Garden,” with Jonathan Beever, in ed. Jonathan Beever and Vernon W. Cisney, The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace: Philosophical Footholds on Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, (Northwestern University Press, 2016), 3-17.
“Jacques Derrida and the Future,” invited peer-reviewed contribution to Husserl’s “Ideen,” ed. Lester Embree and Thomas Nenon (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2012), 433-449.
“Gathering and Contestation: The Place of Silence in Heidegger and Foucault,” ed. J. Burmeister and M. Sentesy, On Language: Analytic, Continental and Historical Contributions (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007), 123-141.
Digital Humanities
“Provocations in Consideration of Thomas Nail’s The Figure of the Migrant” (2,200 words), An und für sich: An Anomalous Humanities Blog, (June 2016).
“Differential Ontology” (19,000 words), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, invited peer-reviewed contribution, (June 2013).
Book Reviews
Ralph Clare, ed., The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), Studies in the Novel, Volume 52, No. 3 (Fall 2020), 344-346.
Clayton Crockett, Derrida After the End of Writing: Political Theology and New Materialism (Fordham University Press, 2018), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (August 27, 2018).
Mauro Senatore, ed., Performatives After Deconstruction (Bloomsbury Publishing Company, 2013), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (August 28, 2014).
“Toward a Deleuzian Ethics: Value without Transcendence,” A Review of ed. Daniel W. Smith and Nathan Jun, Deleuze and Ethics (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), in Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry, Volume 7, No. 16 (Fall 2011), 72-73.
Translations
Pierre Klossowski, Living Currency (with Nicolae Morar and Daniel W. Smith), in ed. Vernon W. Cisney, Nicolae Morar, and Daniel W. Smith, Living Currency, followed by Sade and Fourier, (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017).
Etienne Bimbenet, “To Have Done (Truly) with Metaphysics,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, (with Nicolae Morar), Vol. L, No. 2 (Summer, 2012), 319-328.
Julia Kristeva, “A European in China,” in Critical Inquiry (with Nicolae Morar), Vol. 37, No. 3 (Spring 2011), 419-433.
Irène Pereira, “Proudhon, Pragmatist” (with Nicolae Morar), in ed. Nathan Jun and Shane Wahl, New Perspectives on Anarchism (Lexington Books, 2010), 227-240.
Popular Articles
“Can Summer Reading Be Both Smart and Pleasurable?: On the True Meaning of a Good ‘Beach Read,’” (1200 words), Medium, (July 2018).
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Authored Books
Reading Deleuze (forthcoming, Wipf and Stock Publishers).
Deleuze and the Intensive Materiality of Literature, (manuscript underway, proposal for Edinburgh University Press).
Edited Books
Deleuze, Guattari, and the Schizoanalysis of the Earth, with Robert Luzecky (Bloomsbury).
Articles and Book Chapters
“Modes of Self-Forgetting: The Ethics of the Nothing in Wallace’s Infinite Jest,” The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies (revise and resubmit, The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies).
"Necrocapitalism at the End of the World: The Economics of Death in Cormac McCarthy's The Counselor."
"To Have Done With the Death of Philosophy: Derrida's Theory and Practice Seminar."
“My Word is Not Dead: Chaos, Law, and the Materiality of McCarthy’s Language”
“The Deep Foundation of the World: McCarthy’s Passengers in Time”
"Philosophy as Science Fiction: Summoning the New Earth."
“The Production of a Thousand Sexes: On the Significance of ‘Becoming-Woman’ in Capitalism and Schizophrenia.”
Conferences Directed
Association for Philosophy and Literature Biennial Conference. Gettysburg College, June 2024. Keynote Speakers TBD.
Spinoza and Leibniz. Deleuze Seminar. Swarthmore College, September 2023.
Annual Conference of the International Society for David Foster Wallace Studies. Gettysburg College, June 2023. Keynote Speakers: Lee Konstantinou, Kymberly Harris.
The Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar, “Horror!” Gettysburg College, April 2020. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kendall Phillips, Syracuse University. (Conference Cancelled—COVID-19).
“The Logic of Sense, Fifty Years On.” Deleuze Seminar. Gettysburg College, September 2019.
The Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar, “Cinema and the Representation of Time.” Gettysburg College, April 2019. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lutz Koepnick, Vanderbilt University.
“Difference and Repetition at Fifty, an International Seminar.” Gettysburg College, October 2018.
The Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar, “Mummies, Vampires, and Zombies: Searching for Sophia Among the Undead.” Gettysburg College, April 2018. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kyle William Bishop, Southern Utah University.
The Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar, “Cinema and the Thought of Gender.” Gettysburg College, April 2017. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michele Schreiber, Emory University.
The Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar, “The Thought of Terrence Malick.” Gettysburg College, April 2016. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Steven Rybin, Minnesota State University Mankato.
2nd Annual Philosophy Department Graduate Student Conference, “Philosophy and Technology.” The University of Memphis, February, 2006. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kevin Warwick, Warwick University, UK.
International Conference Papers and Presentations
“Time, Truth, and the Power of the False.” Deleuze & Guattari Studies Camp and Conference—Controlism, Nomadism, Fronterism in the Global South. Hosted by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mexico City, Mexico. June 2022.
“Claire Colebrook and the Poetry of Life.” The Association for Philosophy and Literature 2022 Conference: Nature: Animal, Moral, Technological. Hosted by MacEwan University. Banff, Alberta, Canada. May 2022.
“Materiality, Mechanism, and the Veil of Maya: Rancière and the Becoming-Art of Cinema.” 24th Annual International Philosophical Seminar: Reading Rancière’s Aisthesis. Südtirol/Alto Adige (Italy). July, 2014.
“The Tremendous Power of the Negative: A Difference of Differences.” 2nd International Derrida Today Conference. Hosted by Kingston University, London, July 2010.
“Echoes in the Desert: Khôra and Negative Theology in Derridean Discourse.” 1st International Derrida Today Conference. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, July 2008.
“Duration and Immanence: The Question of A Life in Deleuze.” Invited Presenter, Life Turn: Bergson and After. Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, March, 2008.
National Conference Papers and Presentations
“The Deep Foundation of the World: McCarthy’s Passengers in Time.” Thirty-Fourth Annual American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. May 2023.
“My Word is Not Dead: Chaos, Law, and the Materiality of McCarthy’s Language.”
—Philosophy Club Guest Speaker. April 2023.
—Forty-Fourth Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 2023.
—Friday Faculty Forum. Gettysburg College. November 2022.
—Cormac McCarthy Society Fall 2022 Conference. Savannah, GA. September 2022.
“Deleuze and the Interior Infinite in ‘Good Old Neon.’” Seventh Annual International Conference of David Foster Wallace Studies. The University of Texas at Austin, June 2020. (Conference Cancelled—COVID-19).
“Time, Truth, and the Power of the False.” American Philosophical Association Eastern Division. Philadelphia, PA. January 2020.
“A Time Divided: The Hidden ‘Faith’ of Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale.”
—American Philosophical Association Central Division Conference. Chicago, IL. February 2020.
—Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar. Gettysburg, PA. April 2019.
“Modes of Self-Forgetting: The Ethics of the Nothing in Wallace’s Infinite Jest.”
—Annual Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. November 2019.
— Sixth Annual International Conference of David Foster Wallace Studies. Illinois State University, June 2019.
—Thirtieth Annual American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. May 2019.
“Aesthetic and Social Revolutions.” Invited Guest Lecturer, PHI3638—Ethical Issues in the 21st Century. University of Central Florida. November 2017.
“The Worlds of Terrence Malick.” Department of Philosophy and Texts & Technology Research Colloquium. November 2017.
“Something to do with a Girl Named Marla: Eros and Gender in Fincher’s Fight Club.”
—Philosophy Department Colloquium. Eastern Illinois University. October 2017.
—Ninth Annual Faith, Film, and Philosophy Lecture Series. Gonzaga University, October 2016.
“The Poststructuralist Broom of Wallace’s System: Lenore, Derrida, and Deleuze.” Fourth Annual International Conference of David Foster Wallace Studies. Illinois State University, June 2017.
“I Am Jack’s Suppressed Complementarity: A Taoist Look at Gender in Fincher’s Fight Club.” Sigma Chi Fraternity Spring Academic Lecture. Gettysburg College. March, 2016.
“Something that Was Mine: The Time and Space of Ethical Reflection in Rian Johnson’s Looper.”
—Gettysburg College Philosophy Department Research Colloquium. Gettysburg College, November, 2013.
—Seventh Annual Faith, Film, and Philosophy Lecture Series. Gonzaga University, October, 2013.
“What if Everything Happens for a Reason?” Violence, Interrupted: A Workshop on the Sources and Prevention-Strategies of Aggressive Behavior. Gettysburg College, September 2013.
“Living in the Land of the Dead: George Romero on the Rarity of Thought.” Zombie Symposium. York College, April 2013.
“And the Glory Shines Through All Things: The Way of Grace in Malick’s World.” Sixth Annual Faith, Film, and Philosophy Lecture Series. Gonzaga University, October 2012.
“The Madness of God: Toward a Derridean Cinema in Shutter Island.” 3rd International Derrida Today Conference. University of California Irvine, July 2012.
“Cinema as Philosophy.” Invited Guest Lecturer, Undergraduate Philosophy Club. Indiana University Kokomo, October, 2011.
“Nietzsche’s Übermensch: A Deleuzian Account.” Invited Guest Lecturer, PHIL 363—Nietzsche. The University of Cincinnati, November, 2010.
“The Tremendous Power of the Negative: A Difference of Differences.”
—The 9th Biennial Radical Philosophy Association Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, November 2010.
—4th Biennial Philosophy and Literature Conference. “Deleuze: Ethics and Politics.” Purdue University, April 2010.
“Echoes in the Desert: Khôra and Negative Theology in Derridean Discourse.”
—47th Annual Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Conference. Duquesne University, October 2008.
—32nd Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference. The University of Memphis, February, 2008.
“Categories of Life: The Status of the Camp in Derrida and Agamben.” American Studies Symposium. Purdue University, April, 2008.
“Critiquing the Religious?: Response to Somaieh Emamjomeh’s ‘Silence and the Demonic.’” 32nd Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference. The University of Memphis, February, 2008.
“Immanence and Ecstasy: The Temporal Structure in Husserl and Heidegger.” Department of Philosophy Graduate Student Colloquium. Purdue University, October, 2007.
“Gathering and Contestation: The Place of Silence in Heidegger and Foucault.” 7th Annual Philosophy Department Graduate Student Conference, “On Language: Analytic, Continental, and Historical Perspectives.” Boston College, April, 2006.
“Husserl and the Constitution of Objective Time.” Philosophy Department Colloquium. Eastern Illinois University, March, 2005.
“Existentialist Themes in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.” Invited Guest Lecturer, PHI 280—Ethics. Lake Land College, April, 2004.
TEACHING
2012-Present, Gettysburg College, Interdisciplinary Studies, Jewish Studies, Philosophy
Courses Taught
FYS 138-2: Plato, Personhood, and Popcorn: Big Ideas on the Big Screen, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016 (2 Sections), Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
PHIL 101: Introduction to Philosophy, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 (2 Sections), Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014
PHIL 105: Contemporary Moral Issues, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012
PHIL 205: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Spring 2014, Fall 2013
PHIL 206: Medieval and Renaissance European Philosophy, Spring 2017
PHIL 207: Early Modern European Philosophy, Fall 2014, Fall 2012
PHIL 208: Kant and 19th Century European Philosophy, Spring 2014
PHIL 219: Philosophies of Peace and Non-Violence, Fall 2012
PHIL 225: Existential Philosophies, Spring 2014
PHIL 227: Beyond Terrorism, Spring 2013
PHIL 235: Philosophical Ideas in Literature, Spring 2018 (David Foster Wallace), Fall 2016, Spring 2015
PHIL 237: Philosophy of Religion, Spring 2017
PHIL 335: Philosophy of Film, Spring 2016, Spring 2013
PHIL 366: Great Philosophers—Spinoza, Spring 2015
PHIL 368: Reading Dostoevsky, Fall 2015
CIMS 270: Topics in Film: Terrence Malick, Spring 2019
CIMS 350: Topics in Film: Quentin Tarantino, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
IDS 236: Literature, Language, and Life, Spring 2021
IDS 250: Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies: Franz Kafka, Fall 2019
IDS 250: Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Spring 2019
IDS 265: Jewish Thought and the Enlightenment, Fall 2019
IDS 270: Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Fall 2020
IDS 305: Power, Punishment, and Pleasure: Michel Foucault, Spring 2020
IDS 350: Foucault 2, Fall 2020
Thesis Advising and Independent Studies
IDS 450: Independent Study—Hölderlin, Poe, Rimbaud, and Baudelaire, Spring 2021
IDS 450: Independent Study—Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, Fall 2020
IDS 450: Independent Study—David Foster Wallace on the Theme of Loneliness, Spring 2020
IDS 450: Independent Study—Spinoza’s Ethics and Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and Works of Love, Fall 2019
IDS 450: Independent Study—Spinoza’s Ethics and Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, Spring 2019
PHIL 460: Independent Study--Difference and Repetition and Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Fall 2018
PHIL 450: Independent Study—Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy/Early Derrida, Spring 2018
PHIL 460: Independent Study—Deleuze's Difference and Repetition and Badiou's Being and Event, Fall 2017
PHIL 460: Independent Study—Poetry, Language, Thought: 19th and 20th Century German Philosophy and Literature, Fall 2016
PHIL 460: Independent Study—Survey in Medieval and Renaissance European Philosophy, Fall 2015
PHIL 460: Independent Study—Deleuze and Guattari’s two-volume Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Fall 2014
PHIL 466: Senior Thesis—Advising senior Philosophy students on thesis papers:
"The Justice of Deconstruction and the Textuality of Law," Spring 2018
“Must 'God' Exist Necessarily?: A Re-Consideration of Spinoza's Ontological Argument,” Spring 2016
“The Only Thing You Have to Lose is Your Sanity: A Political Irrationality Towards Emancipation,” Spring 2016
“Transcendental Consumption: Developing a Creative Alternative to Traditional Consumption Practices,” Spring 2016
“Clock Time vs. Perceived Time: Henri Bergson’s Concept of Duration and the Problem of Clock Time,” Fall 2014
“The Art of the Absurd: Albert Camus and the Search for Meaning,” Spring 2014
“Deadly Damsels: Toward a Better Understanding of the Warrior Woman in Film,” Spring 2013
“The Brave New World of One-Dimensional Man: A Reappraisal of Aldous Huxley and Herbert Marcuse,” Fall 2012
Alumni Weekend Courses Taught
AC 105: Plato, Personhood, and Popcorn: Big Ideas on the Big Screen, June 2016
2011-2012, Indiana University Kokomo, Adjunct Philosophy Faculty, Department of Humanities
Courses Taught
PHIL P140: Introduction to Ethics (With an Honors Option), Spring 2012, Fall 2011
PHIL P100: Introduction to Philosophy Through Film (With an Honors Option), Spring 2012
PHIL P100: Introduction to Philosophy (With an Honors Option), Fall 2011
2007-2012, Purdue University, Department of Philosophy
Courses Taught—Instructor of Record
PHIL 110: Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2011
PHIL 111: Introduction to Ethics, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008
PHIL 330: Religions of the East, Summer 2010, Spring 2010 (Substitute lecturer), Summer 2009
PHIL 331: Religions of the West, Summer 2008
Teaching Assistant
JWST 330: Introduction to Jewish Studies, Spring 2012
PHIL 206: Philosophy of Religion, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
Certificates
Graduate Teaching Certificate—May 2012 (Purdue’s Center for Instructional Excellence)
2003, Lake Land College (Mattoon, IL), Department of Philosophy
Online Course Facilitator
PHI 270-Introduction to Philosophy-Summer 2003 (Instructor Tom Caldwell)
SERVICE, AWARDS, LANGUAGES, AND MEMBERSHIPS
Awards, Grants, and Honors
Philosophy Department CETA (Committee for the Education of Teaching Assistants) Teaching Award, Purdue University, 2012
Purdue Graduate School Summer Research Grant, Summer 2011
McBride Graduate Student International Travel Grant, Purdue University, 2008-2009
Ross Fellowship, Purdue University, 2006-2007
Outstanding Senior Award, Philosophy Department, Eastern Illinois University, 2003-2004
Professional Service
Article Reviewer for Hypatia
Article Reviewer for Chiasmi International
Article Reviewer for Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Article Reviewer for Revista de Estudios Sociales
Article Reviewer for Peace and Change
Article Reviewer for Foucault Studies
Article Reviewer for Film and Philosophy
Reviewer for Routledge Taylor and Francis Group
Reviewer for Oxford University Press
Foreign Language Competencies
French (reading)
German (reading)
Attic Greek (reading)
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Philosophical Association
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts
Radical Philosophy Association
2012 Ph.D., Philosophy, Purdue University (May 2012)
Dissertation: “Toward a Philosophy of Difference: From Derrida to Deleuze”
Committee: Daniel W. Smith (Chair), Leonard Lawlor, Christopher Yeomans, Arkady Plotnitsky
2006 M.A., Philosophy, The University of Memphis
2004 B.A. (summa cum laude), Philosophy, Eastern Illinois University
Honors Thesis: “Nietzsche and Eternal Return: A Critical Analysis of the Greatest Weight”
Faculty Advisor: Gary E. Aylesworth
2000 A.A. (summa cum laude), Psychology, Lake Land College
RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS
Areas of Specialization
Nineteenth through Twenty-First Century Continental Philosophy; Philosophy of Film; Philosophy of Literature
Areas of Competence
History of Philosophy; Aesthetics; Philosophy of Religion; Social and Political Philosophy
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2022-Present Chair, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Gettysburg College
2021-2022 Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Gettysburg College
2018-2021 Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Gettysburg College
2012-2018 Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Gettysburg College
2011-2012 Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University Kokomo
2008-2012 Instructor of Record, Purdue University
2007-2008 Teaching Assistant, Purdue University
2003 Online Course Facilitator, Lake Land College
RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS
Authored Books
Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative, (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).
Derrida’s Voice and Phenomenon: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide, written for the Edinburgh Philosophical Guides series, (Edinburgh University Press, 2014).
Edited Books
Living Currency, followed by Sade and Fourier, by Pierre Klossowski, edited with Nicolae Morar and Daniel W. Smith, (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017).
Between Foucault and Derrida, edited with Yubraj Aryal, Nicolae Morar, and Christopher Penfield, (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace: Philosophical Footholds on Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, edited with Jonathan Beever, (Northwestern University Press, 2016).
Biopower: Foucault and Beyond, edited with Nicolae Morar, (the University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Journal Special Issue
Deleuze and Guattari Studies: Fifty Years of The Logic of Sense, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 2022), Guest Editor.
Deleuze and Guattari Studies: The Fiftieth Anniversary of Difference and Repetition, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2020), Guest Editor with Chas. Phillips and Daniel W. Smith.
Audio Lecture Series
The Devil: A Biography. 21 Lectures. Learn25. October 2021.
Video Courses
The Films of Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood Outsider. One Day University. February 2023.
Franz Kafka and Metamorphosis: The Absurdity of Everyday Life. One Day University. August 2022.
Journal Articles
“Free-Range Philosophy: Modes of Philosophical Analysis Across the Discipline … And Across the Road,” with Steven Gimbel, in The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook, Vol. 2, No. 1 (December 2021), 191-202.
“The Writer is a Sorcerer: Literature and the Becomings of A Thousand Plateaus,” in Deleuze and Guattari Studies: A Thousand Plateaus Turns 40, Vol. 14, No. 3 (forthcoming, Fall 2020).
“Metaphor, Metamorphosis, and Meaning: ‘All the Possibilities of Language’ in Difference and Repetition,” for Deleuze and Guattari Studies: The Fiftieth Anniversary of Difference and Repetition, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2020).
“Something to do With a Girl Named Marla: Eros and Gender in David Fincher’s Fight Club,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Vol. XVIII, No. 3 (Fall 2019), 576-599.
“The Poststructuralist Broom of Wallace’s System: A Conversation Between Wittgenstein and Derrida” (6,500 words), Kritikos: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text, and Image, Vol. XV (Fall 2018).
“Living in the Land of the Dead: George Romero, Gilles Deleuze, and the Question of the Zombie,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Vol. XIII, No. 2, Special Issue: The Cultural and Political Life of Zombies (Summer, 2014), 58-81.
“Becoming-Other: Foucault, Deleuze, and the Nature of Thought,” invited peer-reviewed contribution, Foucault Studies, No. 17, Special Issue: Foucault and Deleuze (April, 2014), 36-59.
“All Things in Mind: Panpsychist Elements in Spinoza, Deleuze, and Peirce,” with Jonathan Beever, Biosemiotics, Vol. VI, No. 3 (April, 2014), 351-365.
“The Madness of God: The Schizosign in Shutter Island,” Film and Philosophy, Vol. XVIII (Winter, 2013), 124-145.
“Categories of Life: The Status of the Camp in Derrida and Agamben,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XLV, No. 4 (July, 2008), 161-179.
“Duration and Immanence: The Question of A Life in Deleuze,” Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Philosophia, LIII, 1-2, (2008), 71-84.
Book Chapters
“Time, Truth, and the Power of the False,” Deleuze and Time, ed. Rob Luzecky and Daniel W. Smith, (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), 213-233.
“How One Becomes What One Is: The Nietzschean Polytheology of Joker (2019),” in Theology and Batman, ed. Matthew Brake and Chuck Robertson, (Lexington Books, 2022), 219-236.
“Will God Forgive Us?: Interdependence and Self-Transcendence in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed,” in ed. Jonathan Beever, Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence, (Lexington Books, 2021), 43-66.
“The Gifts of Death: Visions of Sacrifice in the Worlds of Terrence Malick,” in A Critical Companion to Terrence Malick, ed. Joshua Sikora (Lexington Books, 2020), 199-216.
“In G.O.D. We Trust: The Desert of the Religious in The Broom of the System,” in David Foster Wallace and Religion: Essays on Faith and Fiction, ed. Michael McGowan and Martin Brick (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019), 69-81.
“Introduction: Why Biopower? Why Now?,” with Nicolae Morar, in ed. Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar, Biopower: Foucault and Beyond, (the University of Chicago Press, 2016), 1-25.
“All the World is Shining, and Love is Smiling Through All Things: The Collapse of the Two Ways in The Tree of Life,” in ed. Jonathan Beever and Vernon W. Cisney, The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace: Philosophical Footholds on Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, (Northwestern University Press, 2016), 213-232.
“Introduction: In the Midst of the Garden,” with Jonathan Beever, in ed. Jonathan Beever and Vernon W. Cisney, The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace: Philosophical Footholds on Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, (Northwestern University Press, 2016), 3-17.
“Jacques Derrida and the Future,” invited peer-reviewed contribution to Husserl’s “Ideen,” ed. Lester Embree and Thomas Nenon (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2012), 433-449.
“Gathering and Contestation: The Place of Silence in Heidegger and Foucault,” ed. J. Burmeister and M. Sentesy, On Language: Analytic, Continental and Historical Contributions (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007), 123-141.
Digital Humanities
“Provocations in Consideration of Thomas Nail’s The Figure of the Migrant” (2,200 words), An und für sich: An Anomalous Humanities Blog, (June 2016).
“Differential Ontology” (19,000 words), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, invited peer-reviewed contribution, (June 2013).
Book Reviews
Ralph Clare, ed., The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), Studies in the Novel, Volume 52, No. 3 (Fall 2020), 344-346.
Clayton Crockett, Derrida After the End of Writing: Political Theology and New Materialism (Fordham University Press, 2018), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (August 27, 2018).
Mauro Senatore, ed., Performatives After Deconstruction (Bloomsbury Publishing Company, 2013), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (August 28, 2014).
“Toward a Deleuzian Ethics: Value without Transcendence,” A Review of ed. Daniel W. Smith and Nathan Jun, Deleuze and Ethics (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), in Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry, Volume 7, No. 16 (Fall 2011), 72-73.
Translations
Pierre Klossowski, Living Currency (with Nicolae Morar and Daniel W. Smith), in ed. Vernon W. Cisney, Nicolae Morar, and Daniel W. Smith, Living Currency, followed by Sade and Fourier, (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017).
Etienne Bimbenet, “To Have Done (Truly) with Metaphysics,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, (with Nicolae Morar), Vol. L, No. 2 (Summer, 2012), 319-328.
Julia Kristeva, “A European in China,” in Critical Inquiry (with Nicolae Morar), Vol. 37, No. 3 (Spring 2011), 419-433.
Irène Pereira, “Proudhon, Pragmatist” (with Nicolae Morar), in ed. Nathan Jun and Shane Wahl, New Perspectives on Anarchism (Lexington Books, 2010), 227-240.
Popular Articles
“Can Summer Reading Be Both Smart and Pleasurable?: On the True Meaning of a Good ‘Beach Read,’” (1200 words), Medium, (July 2018).
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Authored Books
Reading Deleuze (forthcoming, Wipf and Stock Publishers).
Deleuze and the Intensive Materiality of Literature, (manuscript underway, proposal for Edinburgh University Press).
Edited Books
Deleuze, Guattari, and the Schizoanalysis of the Earth, with Robert Luzecky (Bloomsbury).
Articles and Book Chapters
“Modes of Self-Forgetting: The Ethics of the Nothing in Wallace’s Infinite Jest,” The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies (revise and resubmit, The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies).
"Necrocapitalism at the End of the World: The Economics of Death in Cormac McCarthy's The Counselor."
"To Have Done With the Death of Philosophy: Derrida's Theory and Practice Seminar."
“My Word is Not Dead: Chaos, Law, and the Materiality of McCarthy’s Language”
“The Deep Foundation of the World: McCarthy’s Passengers in Time”
"Philosophy as Science Fiction: Summoning the New Earth."
“The Production of a Thousand Sexes: On the Significance of ‘Becoming-Woman’ in Capitalism and Schizophrenia.”
Conferences Directed
Association for Philosophy and Literature Biennial Conference. Gettysburg College, June 2024. Keynote Speakers TBD.
Spinoza and Leibniz. Deleuze Seminar. Swarthmore College, September 2023.
Annual Conference of the International Society for David Foster Wallace Studies. Gettysburg College, June 2023. Keynote Speakers: Lee Konstantinou, Kymberly Harris.
The Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar, “Horror!” Gettysburg College, April 2020. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kendall Phillips, Syracuse University. (Conference Cancelled—COVID-19).
“The Logic of Sense, Fifty Years On.” Deleuze Seminar. Gettysburg College, September 2019.
The Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar, “Cinema and the Representation of Time.” Gettysburg College, April 2019. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lutz Koepnick, Vanderbilt University.
“Difference and Repetition at Fifty, an International Seminar.” Gettysburg College, October 2018.
The Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar, “Mummies, Vampires, and Zombies: Searching for Sophia Among the Undead.” Gettysburg College, April 2018. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kyle William Bishop, Southern Utah University.
The Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar, “Cinema and the Thought of Gender.” Gettysburg College, April 2017. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michele Schreiber, Emory University.
The Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar, “The Thought of Terrence Malick.” Gettysburg College, April 2016. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Steven Rybin, Minnesota State University Mankato.
2nd Annual Philosophy Department Graduate Student Conference, “Philosophy and Technology.” The University of Memphis, February, 2006. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kevin Warwick, Warwick University, UK.
International Conference Papers and Presentations
“Time, Truth, and the Power of the False.” Deleuze & Guattari Studies Camp and Conference—Controlism, Nomadism, Fronterism in the Global South. Hosted by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mexico City, Mexico. June 2022.
“Claire Colebrook and the Poetry of Life.” The Association for Philosophy and Literature 2022 Conference: Nature: Animal, Moral, Technological. Hosted by MacEwan University. Banff, Alberta, Canada. May 2022.
“Materiality, Mechanism, and the Veil of Maya: Rancière and the Becoming-Art of Cinema.” 24th Annual International Philosophical Seminar: Reading Rancière’s Aisthesis. Südtirol/Alto Adige (Italy). July, 2014.
“The Tremendous Power of the Negative: A Difference of Differences.” 2nd International Derrida Today Conference. Hosted by Kingston University, London, July 2010.
“Echoes in the Desert: Khôra and Negative Theology in Derridean Discourse.” 1st International Derrida Today Conference. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, July 2008.
“Duration and Immanence: The Question of A Life in Deleuze.” Invited Presenter, Life Turn: Bergson and After. Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, March, 2008.
National Conference Papers and Presentations
“The Deep Foundation of the World: McCarthy’s Passengers in Time.” Thirty-Fourth Annual American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. May 2023.
“My Word is Not Dead: Chaos, Law, and the Materiality of McCarthy’s Language.”
—Philosophy Club Guest Speaker. April 2023.
—Forty-Fourth Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 2023.
—Friday Faculty Forum. Gettysburg College. November 2022.
—Cormac McCarthy Society Fall 2022 Conference. Savannah, GA. September 2022.
“Deleuze and the Interior Infinite in ‘Good Old Neon.’” Seventh Annual International Conference of David Foster Wallace Studies. The University of Texas at Austin, June 2020. (Conference Cancelled—COVID-19).
“Time, Truth, and the Power of the False.” American Philosophical Association Eastern Division. Philadelphia, PA. January 2020.
“A Time Divided: The Hidden ‘Faith’ of Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale.”
—American Philosophical Association Central Division Conference. Chicago, IL. February 2020.
—Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar. Gettysburg, PA. April 2019.
“Modes of Self-Forgetting: The Ethics of the Nothing in Wallace’s Infinite Jest.”
—Annual Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. November 2019.
— Sixth Annual International Conference of David Foster Wallace Studies. Illinois State University, June 2019.
—Thirtieth Annual American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. May 2019.
“Aesthetic and Social Revolutions.” Invited Guest Lecturer, PHI3638—Ethical Issues in the 21st Century. University of Central Florida. November 2017.
“The Worlds of Terrence Malick.” Department of Philosophy and Texts & Technology Research Colloquium. November 2017.
“Something to do with a Girl Named Marla: Eros and Gender in Fincher’s Fight Club.”
—Philosophy Department Colloquium. Eastern Illinois University. October 2017.
—Ninth Annual Faith, Film, and Philosophy Lecture Series. Gonzaga University, October 2016.
“The Poststructuralist Broom of Wallace’s System: Lenore, Derrida, and Deleuze.” Fourth Annual International Conference of David Foster Wallace Studies. Illinois State University, June 2017.
“I Am Jack’s Suppressed Complementarity: A Taoist Look at Gender in Fincher’s Fight Club.” Sigma Chi Fraternity Spring Academic Lecture. Gettysburg College. March, 2016.
“Something that Was Mine: The Time and Space of Ethical Reflection in Rian Johnson’s Looper.”
—Gettysburg College Philosophy Department Research Colloquium. Gettysburg College, November, 2013.
—Seventh Annual Faith, Film, and Philosophy Lecture Series. Gonzaga University, October, 2013.
“What if Everything Happens for a Reason?” Violence, Interrupted: A Workshop on the Sources and Prevention-Strategies of Aggressive Behavior. Gettysburg College, September 2013.
“Living in the Land of the Dead: George Romero on the Rarity of Thought.” Zombie Symposium. York College, April 2013.
“And the Glory Shines Through All Things: The Way of Grace in Malick’s World.” Sixth Annual Faith, Film, and Philosophy Lecture Series. Gonzaga University, October 2012.
“The Madness of God: Toward a Derridean Cinema in Shutter Island.” 3rd International Derrida Today Conference. University of California Irvine, July 2012.
“Cinema as Philosophy.” Invited Guest Lecturer, Undergraduate Philosophy Club. Indiana University Kokomo, October, 2011.
“Nietzsche’s Übermensch: A Deleuzian Account.” Invited Guest Lecturer, PHIL 363—Nietzsche. The University of Cincinnati, November, 2010.
“The Tremendous Power of the Negative: A Difference of Differences.”
—The 9th Biennial Radical Philosophy Association Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, November 2010.
—4th Biennial Philosophy and Literature Conference. “Deleuze: Ethics and Politics.” Purdue University, April 2010.
“Echoes in the Desert: Khôra and Negative Theology in Derridean Discourse.”
—47th Annual Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Conference. Duquesne University, October 2008.
—32nd Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference. The University of Memphis, February, 2008.
“Categories of Life: The Status of the Camp in Derrida and Agamben.” American Studies Symposium. Purdue University, April, 2008.
“Critiquing the Religious?: Response to Somaieh Emamjomeh’s ‘Silence and the Demonic.’” 32nd Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference. The University of Memphis, February, 2008.
“Immanence and Ecstasy: The Temporal Structure in Husserl and Heidegger.” Department of Philosophy Graduate Student Colloquium. Purdue University, October, 2007.
“Gathering and Contestation: The Place of Silence in Heidegger and Foucault.” 7th Annual Philosophy Department Graduate Student Conference, “On Language: Analytic, Continental, and Historical Perspectives.” Boston College, April, 2006.
“Husserl and the Constitution of Objective Time.” Philosophy Department Colloquium. Eastern Illinois University, March, 2005.
“Existentialist Themes in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.” Invited Guest Lecturer, PHI 280—Ethics. Lake Land College, April, 2004.
TEACHING
2012-Present, Gettysburg College, Interdisciplinary Studies, Jewish Studies, Philosophy
Courses Taught
FYS 138-2: Plato, Personhood, and Popcorn: Big Ideas on the Big Screen, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016 (2 Sections), Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
PHIL 101: Introduction to Philosophy, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 (2 Sections), Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014
PHIL 105: Contemporary Moral Issues, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012
PHIL 205: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Spring 2014, Fall 2013
PHIL 206: Medieval and Renaissance European Philosophy, Spring 2017
PHIL 207: Early Modern European Philosophy, Fall 2014, Fall 2012
PHIL 208: Kant and 19th Century European Philosophy, Spring 2014
PHIL 219: Philosophies of Peace and Non-Violence, Fall 2012
PHIL 225: Existential Philosophies, Spring 2014
PHIL 227: Beyond Terrorism, Spring 2013
PHIL 235: Philosophical Ideas in Literature, Spring 2018 (David Foster Wallace), Fall 2016, Spring 2015
PHIL 237: Philosophy of Religion, Spring 2017
PHIL 335: Philosophy of Film, Spring 2016, Spring 2013
PHIL 366: Great Philosophers—Spinoza, Spring 2015
PHIL 368: Reading Dostoevsky, Fall 2015
CIMS 270: Topics in Film: Terrence Malick, Spring 2019
CIMS 350: Topics in Film: Quentin Tarantino, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
IDS 236: Literature, Language, and Life, Spring 2021
IDS 250: Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies: Franz Kafka, Fall 2019
IDS 250: Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Spring 2019
IDS 265: Jewish Thought and the Enlightenment, Fall 2019
IDS 270: Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Fall 2020
IDS 305: Power, Punishment, and Pleasure: Michel Foucault, Spring 2020
IDS 350: Foucault 2, Fall 2020
Thesis Advising and Independent Studies
IDS 450: Independent Study—Hölderlin, Poe, Rimbaud, and Baudelaire, Spring 2021
IDS 450: Independent Study—Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, Fall 2020
IDS 450: Independent Study—David Foster Wallace on the Theme of Loneliness, Spring 2020
IDS 450: Independent Study—Spinoza’s Ethics and Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and Works of Love, Fall 2019
IDS 450: Independent Study—Spinoza’s Ethics and Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, Spring 2019
PHIL 460: Independent Study--Difference and Repetition and Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Fall 2018
PHIL 450: Independent Study—Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy/Early Derrida, Spring 2018
PHIL 460: Independent Study—Deleuze's Difference and Repetition and Badiou's Being and Event, Fall 2017
PHIL 460: Independent Study—Poetry, Language, Thought: 19th and 20th Century German Philosophy and Literature, Fall 2016
PHIL 460: Independent Study—Survey in Medieval and Renaissance European Philosophy, Fall 2015
PHIL 460: Independent Study—Deleuze and Guattari’s two-volume Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Fall 2014
PHIL 466: Senior Thesis—Advising senior Philosophy students on thesis papers:
"The Justice of Deconstruction and the Textuality of Law," Spring 2018
“Must 'God' Exist Necessarily?: A Re-Consideration of Spinoza's Ontological Argument,” Spring 2016
“The Only Thing You Have to Lose is Your Sanity: A Political Irrationality Towards Emancipation,” Spring 2016
“Transcendental Consumption: Developing a Creative Alternative to Traditional Consumption Practices,” Spring 2016
“Clock Time vs. Perceived Time: Henri Bergson’s Concept of Duration and the Problem of Clock Time,” Fall 2014
“The Art of the Absurd: Albert Camus and the Search for Meaning,” Spring 2014
“Deadly Damsels: Toward a Better Understanding of the Warrior Woman in Film,” Spring 2013
“The Brave New World of One-Dimensional Man: A Reappraisal of Aldous Huxley and Herbert Marcuse,” Fall 2012
Alumni Weekend Courses Taught
AC 105: Plato, Personhood, and Popcorn: Big Ideas on the Big Screen, June 2016
2011-2012, Indiana University Kokomo, Adjunct Philosophy Faculty, Department of Humanities
Courses Taught
PHIL P140: Introduction to Ethics (With an Honors Option), Spring 2012, Fall 2011
PHIL P100: Introduction to Philosophy Through Film (With an Honors Option), Spring 2012
PHIL P100: Introduction to Philosophy (With an Honors Option), Fall 2011
2007-2012, Purdue University, Department of Philosophy
Courses Taught—Instructor of Record
PHIL 110: Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2011
PHIL 111: Introduction to Ethics, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008
PHIL 330: Religions of the East, Summer 2010, Spring 2010 (Substitute lecturer), Summer 2009
PHIL 331: Religions of the West, Summer 2008
Teaching Assistant
JWST 330: Introduction to Jewish Studies, Spring 2012
PHIL 206: Philosophy of Religion, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
Certificates
Graduate Teaching Certificate—May 2012 (Purdue’s Center for Instructional Excellence)
2003, Lake Land College (Mattoon, IL), Department of Philosophy
Online Course Facilitator
PHI 270-Introduction to Philosophy-Summer 2003 (Instructor Tom Caldwell)
SERVICE, AWARDS, LANGUAGES, AND MEMBERSHIPS
Awards, Grants, and Honors
Philosophy Department CETA (Committee for the Education of Teaching Assistants) Teaching Award, Purdue University, 2012
Purdue Graduate School Summer Research Grant, Summer 2011
McBride Graduate Student International Travel Grant, Purdue University, 2008-2009
Ross Fellowship, Purdue University, 2006-2007
Outstanding Senior Award, Philosophy Department, Eastern Illinois University, 2003-2004
Professional Service
Article Reviewer for Hypatia
Article Reviewer for Chiasmi International
Article Reviewer for Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Article Reviewer for Revista de Estudios Sociales
Article Reviewer for Peace and Change
Article Reviewer for Foucault Studies
Article Reviewer for Film and Philosophy
Reviewer for Routledge Taylor and Francis Group
Reviewer for Oxford University Press
Foreign Language Competencies
French (reading)
German (reading)
Attic Greek (reading)
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Philosophical Association
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts
Radical Philosophy Association