Curriculum Vitae

The New School

PhD – Philosophy 2021
MA – Philosophy 2017

Dissertation

Countervailing Possibility in Aristotle, Martin Heidegger, and Ernst Bloch

Committee

James Dodd (Advisor), Dmitri Nikulin, and Simon Critchley

SUNY Stony Brook

MA – Philosophy 2008

Thesis 

“Hope Against Hope: Ambivalences, Resistances, and Persistence”

Advisor

 Eduardo Mendieta

University of Oregon

BA – Philosophy, German 2005

AOS

Continental

Aristotle; 19th - 20th Century German Philosophy

Metaphysics

Ethics

Social / Political Philosophy

AOC

Ancient, Modern, Kant

Phenomenology

Meta-Ethics; Process Philosophy

Philosophy of Technology, Environmental Ethics

Social Ontology; Theories of Race, Sex, and Gender

Montclair State University

Assistant Professor

2024–Present

Fordham University

Adjunct Instructor

2021–2024

Western Connecticut State University

Adjunct Instructor

2019–2021

Montclair State University

Adjunct Instructor

2016–2024

William Paterson University

Adjunct Instructor

2012–2019

Parsons School of Design

Teaching Fellow
2010–2012

For a list of all prior teaching positions, see Teaching.

• Philosophy of Human Nature

• Introduction to Philosophy

• Questions in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy

• Questions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

• Introduction to Phenomenology

• Persons and Problems: Modern Philosophy

• Aesthetic Theories: The Beautiful and the Grotesque

• Society in an Age of Technological Compulsion

• Introduction to Logic

• Informal Logic

• Formal Logic

• Introduction to Ethics

• Philosophical Ethics

• Environmental Ethics

• Biomedical Ethics

• Ethics in Computing

• Ethics and Community Engagement

• Liberal Studies Colloquium: On the Utopian and the Dystopian

• Philosophy of the Future

• Critical Reading and Writing I and II

• Civilization I and II

For descriptions of courses taught, see Teaching.

The New School Teaching Fellow

Parsons School of Design
2010-2012

DAAD Research Grant

Goethe-Universität

2007

Austrian Fulbright Scholarship

2005

Baden-Württemberg Scholarship

Stuttgart Universität

2002-2004

DAAD Study Grant

PH Ludwigsburg

2002

Dean’s List

University of Oregon

2001-2005

Disability Caucus – Member

Montclair State University

2022-Present

Mentor – Teaching Assistant

Montclair State University

2020-2021

Presenter and Member

NYC LGBTQIA+ Philosophy Club

2020-Present

Mentor – Graduate Teaching

Parsons School of Design

2011-2012

Teaching Assistant / German Translator

PH Ludwigsburg
2004 

Presentations

Butler on Ambivalence and Disobedience

NYC LGBTQIA+ Philosophy Club

2021

This is Not Propaganda

P4L, Montclair State University

2020

Meaning for Sisyphus

P4L, Montclair State University

2018

Publications

Currently I am working on a manuscript version of my dissertation, as well as connected articles:

Darkness and Light in the Augenblick of Heidegger and Bloch 

Aristotle’s Polysemic Possibility

Hope and Responsibility in Bloch and Jonas

American Philosophical Association

2016-Present

Phi Beta Kappa

2005-Present

The New School for Social Research

Nietzsche: Critical and Affirmative Thinker

James Dodd

2010

Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

Jay Bernstein

2009-2010

Hobbes’ Leviathan

Bernard Flynn

2009

Aristotle’s Ethics

2009

Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

Christoph Menke

2009

The Problem of Potentiality

Dirk Setton

2009

Democratic Public and Its Aesthetics

2008

Aesthetics of Modernity

Christoph Menke

2008

Nietzsche on Morality

James Dodd
2008

Goethe Universität, Frankfurt aM

MA Research: Critical Theory

Martin Seel

2007-2008

SUNY Stony Brook

Early German Romanticism

David Kleinberg-Levin
2007

Bergson and Deleuze

Ed Casey (The New School)
2006

Critical Theory

Lydia Goehr (Columbia University)
2006-2007

Art and Its Problems

Eduardo Mendieta
2006

Adorno’s Aesthetics

Eduardo Mendieta
2006

Hermeneutics and Critical Theory

Lorenzo Simpson
2006

Origin of Art in Kant

Andrew Haas
2006

Gadamer: Art, Beauty, and Aesthetics

Ed Casey
2005

Aesthetics: Return of the Repressed

2005

Contemporary Matters

Eduardo Mendieta
2005