1. 20th Century Continental Philosophy (Phenomenology, Deconstruction, Critical Theory; major figures including Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot, Bataille, Nancy, Benjamin)
2. 19th Century Continental Philosophy (esp. Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche)

• B.A., Hiram College (Religious Studies), June 1991
• M.A., Vanderbilt University (Religion), December 1993
• M.A., Vanderbilt University (Philosophy), August 1998
• Ph.D., Vanderbilt University (Philosophy), August 2001

• “Solitude, Alterity, and Violation in Juan Rulfo’s Deserts,” American Academy of
  Comparative Literature, April 2008, Long Beach, CA
• “Recasting the Revaluation of Values: Unavowable Filth,” An Interdisciplinary Symposium: The Sacred and the Debased: Humanity, Community and Cruelty in the Work of Georges Bataille, Occidental College, Los Angeles, February 2008 (invited)
• “Nondetermination and Exposure,” CSU Stanislaus Philosophy Colloquium, September
  2007
• “Nondetermination and Exposure: Photography and the Communication of Pain,”
  International Association of Philosophy and Literature, June 2007, Cyprus (invited)
• “The Contestation of Community,” American Philosophical Association, Spring 2007,
  San Francisco (invited)
• “Georges Bataille as Curator,” Philosophy, Art, and the Uncanny, Staffordshire
  University, May 2003 (invited)
• “The Expiation of Authority: Towards a Genealogy of Community,” American
  Philosophical Association (Pacific), April 2003 (invited)
• “Writing at the Threshold of Common Sense,” International Association of Philosophy
  and Literature, June 2002 (On Kant and the Idea of a Universal History)
  (refereed)
• “Crossing the Line: Heidegger, Blanchot and the Lineage of Oblivion,” North American Heidegger Conference, Southern Connecticut State University, May
  2002 (refereed)
• “Crossing through the Crossing: Writing and Displacement in Heidegger’s Beiträge zur
  Philosophie,” Participant’s Conference of the Phaenomenologicum Collegium,
  Cittá di Castello, Italy, Summer 2000
• “Genealogy, History and the Work of Fiction: Cormac McCarthy and Enlightenment
  Thought,” International Association of Philosophy and Literature, SUNY-Stony
  Brook, May 2000 (refereed)
• “The Repetition of Eternal Return,” Society for Phenomenological and Existential
  Philosophy, University of Oregon, September 1999 (refereed)
• “Heidegger and the Memory of Nietzsche,” Heidegger Conference, DePaul University,
  Chicago, IL, April 1999 (refereed)
• “Heidegger’s Performative Discourse,” Participant’s Conference of the
  Phaenomenologicum Collegium, Perugia, Italy, Summer 1998
• “On Time and Love in Nietzsche and Levinas,” Tennessee Philosophical Association,
  Fall 1996

• Editorial board member for Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft
• Manuscript reviewer for Indiana University Press
• Article reviewer for Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy

Conference and Symposium Affiliations

• Co-organizer with Kalliopi Nikolopoulou, “(E)scapes of Desolation: Deserts and Wastelands
  in Literature, Philosophy, and Art,” American Comparative Literature Association,
  Long Beach, CA, April 2008
• Moderator for The Western Phenomenology Conference, “Dangerous Emotions,” Pasadena, March 2008
• Moderator for Empire, Borderlands, and Border Cultures, “Empire and Post-modernism,” March 2006
• Moderator for SPEP, “Derrida and the Democratic Tradition,” October 2005
• Co-organizer of Normalization, Exclusion, Excess, a national conference held at CSU Stanislaus, October 2005 (with James A. Tuedio)
• Faculty, The Phaenomenologicum Collegium, Cittá di Castello, Perugia, Italy, Summer
  2004
• Panel organizer, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, “Writing/Transcribing the Uncanny” (refereed)
• Assistant to the Director of The Phaenomenologicum Collegium, Cittá di Castello, Perugia, Italy, Summer 2001
• Organizer of Participant’s Conference of the The Phaenomenologicum Collegium, Cittá di Castello, Perugia, Italy, Summer 1999
• Primary organizer of Other Banalities, International Philosophy Conference, Vanderbilt University, March 1998

• Introduction to Philosophy
• Philosophical Inquiry
• Honors Critical Thinking Seminar
• Classics of Western Philosophy
• Philosophical Reading and Analysis
• Introduction to Continental Philosophy
• Philosophy through Literature
• Advanced Studies in the History of Philosophy
• Philosophy of Language
• Cognitive Phenomenology
• Professional Ethics
• Philosophy of Art
• Senior Seminar

• Existentialist Thought and Phenomenology
• Philosophy and Contemporary Issues
• Seminar in Continental Thought
• Modern Philosophy

• Full teaching responsibilies
• Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2000
• General Logic, Summer 1999
• Introduction to Writing, two classes, Fall 1998
• Introduction to Philosophy, Spring 1998
• Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 1997
• Introduction to Philosophy, Spring 1997

• Introduction to Ethics, Ethics of Punishment, Fall 1997
• Introduction to Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Fall 1996