Doctorate - Philosophy
Emory University - 2017
Professional Preparation
Master's - Philosophy
Emory University - 2015
Emory University - 2015
Bachelor's - Philosophy, German Studies, and Music
Whitman College - 2010
Whitman College - 2010
Research Areas
Continental Philosophy
Feminist Philosophy
History of Philosophy
Philosophy of Art and Literature
Social and Political Philosophy
Publications
Forthcoming: “Hyland’s Platonic Dialogue with Heidegger’s Conversations” in Drew Hyland's Festschrift, Brill. - Book Chapter
Forthcoming: “Anzaldúa’s Revolutionary Self-Writing” in Politics and Minor Literature: Transcultural Interventions in Deleuze and Guattari’s Account of Minor Literature, Brill. - Book Chapter
Forthcoming: Commentary on Ian Moore’s Dialogue on the Threshold: Heidegger and Trakl for Book Symposium in Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 15 2025 - Book Symposium
Forthcoming: "Antigone's (Poetic, Queer) Death: Heidegger, Butler, and Mortality" in Heidegger, Dasein, and Gender: Thinking the Unthought, Rowman & Littlefield 2024 - Book Chapter
Heidegger's Conversations: Toward a Poetic Pedagogy. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2024 - Book
“Heidegger’s Conversational Pedagogy” in Research in Phenomenology Volume 52, Issue 3 (Fall 2022): 399-424. 2022 - Journal Article
“The Architecture of Appearance: Arendt’s Feminism and Guatemala’s Private City” in Arendt Studies Volume 4 (Fall 2020): 53-82. 2020 - Journal Article
“Heidegger’s Reading(s) of the Phaedrus” in Studia Phaenomenologica Volume XX (Fall 2020): 191-221. 2020 - Journal Article
Awards
Philosophy in Media Fellow - Marc Sanders Foundation [2024]
National Humanities Center Residential Fellowship, Philip L. Quinn Fellowship 23-24 - The National Humanities Center [2023]
American Philosophical Association Diversity Institute Alumni Fund Travel Award (X6) - The American Philosophical Association [2022]
Genice Rabe Travel Award - History and Philosophy Track, UTD [2019]
Minor Teaching Project Grant - Center for Teaching Excellence, Miami University [2018]
Emory Writing Center Dissertation Completion Fellowship - Emory University [2016]
Emory University Laney Graduate School Fellowship - Emory University [2011]
Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Germany (Declined) - Fulbright [2011]
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Summer University Course Grant - DAAD, Freie Universität Berlin [2010]
Iris Marion Young Diversity Scholar - The Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State [2009]
Appointments
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2018–Present]
University of Texas at Dallas [2018–Present]
Visiting Assistant Professor
Miami University of Ohio [2017–2018]
Miami University of Ohio [2017–2018]
Graduate Instructor
Emory University [2013–2017]
Emory University [2013–2017]
Projects
When Home Isn't: Theorizing the Family Policing System
Monograph in progress"Making-Kin: In the Wake of Family Policing"
Chapter for edited volume in preparationProposal under review with Duke UP
“A Critical Phenomenology of Family Policing”
Article in preparationPresentations
Author’s Response to Book Panel devoted to my monograph: Heidegger’s Conversations
Heidegger Circle 59th Annual Conference, Duquesne University“The Case of Michael Oher: Race, Disability, and Foster Care”
Invited Talk by the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program, Wabash College“Philosophy Humanities Research in the Age of AI”
"International Symposium on AI and Humanities Research” invited speaker at National Taiwan UniversityToward a Critical Phenomenology of Foster Care
“Just Theory Lecture Series” invited speaker at University at BuffaloAbolition Feminism and the Family Policing System
SPEP 62nd Annual Conference, Rochester Institute of TechnologyAdditional Information
Upcoming Course Offerings (subject to change)
Fall 2024:Graduate Seminar "Feminist and Queer Theory"
Undergraduate Course "Feminist Philosophy"
Spring 2025:
Undergraduate Course "Introduction to Philosophy"
Undergraduate Course "Confronting Death"
Fall 2025:
Graduate Seminar "(Critical) Phenomenology"
Undergraduate Course "Phenomenology"