University of Chicago Divinity School - expected June 2012
PhD candidate in Theology
Comprehensive Exams: History of Christian Thought, 150-1325 (with Willemien Otten); History of Modern Religious Thought, 1600-1950 (with Kathryn Tanner); Continental Philosophy of Religion in the Twentieth Century (with Jean-Luc Marion); Issues in Contemporary Theory (with Arnold Davidson)
Dissertation Committee: Kathryn Tanner (chair), Arnold Davidson, Kevin Hector, Denys Turner
Thesis: "Hope in the Unforeseeable God: An Eschatological Apophaticism"
Oxford University - 2006-07
DPhil candidate in Theology, supervised by George Pattison (degree incomplete)
Yale University - 2007
Visiting Assistant in Research, supervised by Denys Turner
Oxford University - 2006
Master of Philosophy in Theology, supervised by Morwenna Ludlow
Thesis: "On The Eschatological Limits of Theology: Denys the Areopagite and Jacques Derrida"
Washington and Lee University - 2003
B.A. in Philosophy: Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, summa cum laude
Articles & Chapters
"Eckhart, Derrida, and the Gift of Love." Heythrop Journal (forthcoming).
"Eschatology and the Areopagite: Interpreting the Dionysian Hierarchies in Terms of Time." Studia Patristica. Leuven: Peeters (forthcoming).
"Derrida, Jacques (1930-2004)." The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (forthcoming).
"Tradition, Novelty, and the Need for Discernment." The Living Church (29 Jan 2012), pp. 19-22.
"Conceiving Transformation without Triumphalism: Joachim of Fiore against Gianni Vattimo," Heythrop Journal. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2265.2011.00690.x.
"Time and the Responsibilities of Reading: Revisiting Derrida and Dionysius." Reading the Church Fathers. Eds. Scot Douglass and Morwenna Ludlow. London: T&T Clark, 2011, pp. 23-43.
"Ambivalence in Dionysius the Areopagite: The Limitations of a Liturgical Reading." Studia Patristica XLVIII. Eds. J. Baun, A.Cameron, M.Edwards, M. Vinzent. Leuven: Peeters, 2010, pp. 211-6.
"Vulnerability and the Possibility of Progress." University of Chicago Religion and Culture Web Forum, May 2010.
Book Reviews
Review of Oliver O’Donnovan, Church in Crisis: The Gay Controversy and the Anglican Communion. Anglican Theological Review 92.4 (Fall 2010), pp. 866-7.
Review of Peter Rollins, How (Not) to Speak of God. Anglican Theological Review 91.1 (Winter 2009), pp. 167-8.
Review of William Charlton, Being Reasonable about Religion. Heythrop Journal 49.4 (July 2008), pp. 707-709.
Review of John D. Caputo, The Weakness of God and John D. Caputo, Philosophy and Theology. International Journal of Systematic Theology 10.1 (2008), pp. 105-8.
Review of Don Cupitt, The Old Creed and the New. Reviews in Religion and Theology 14.4 (2007), pp. 582-5.
Teaching
Preceptor, Princeton University, 2011
Led weekly discussion sections and graded student papers for an introductory course in religious ethics
Instructor, University of Chicago, 2010
Created a syllabus, taught, and shared grading responsibility for a Master’s-level class on liturgy and worship in a team of three instructors
Writing Intern, University of Chicago, 2009-10Preceptor, Princeton University, 2011
Led weekly discussion sections and graded student papers for an introductory course in religious ethics
Created a syllabus, taught, and shared grading responsibility for a Master’s-level class on liturgy and worship in a team of three instructors
Assisted in humanities core classes, taught writing to first-year students, and graded student papers
Visiting Instructor, Washington and Lee University, 2007
Invited to design and teach one week of a six week course on Christian mysticism
Selected Presentations
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, 11/2009
Origen on Text and Alterity
North American Patristics Society, 05/2009
Foucault, Becker, and the Persistence of Biopolitics
The ninth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle, 03/2009
The Tension of Reason and Flesh in Origen's Allegorical Exegesis
"The Grandeur of Reason," a conference hosted by The Centre of Theology and Philosophy, 09/2008
Tense and Tension - Derrida and Dionysius
North American Patristics Society, 05/2008
Ambivalence in Dionysius the Areopagite: The Limitations of a Liturgical Reading
Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies at the University of Oxford, 08/2007
Other Religions and the Future of Faith: A Derridean Eschatology
Annual meeting of the Society of the Study of Theology, 04/2006
Theology as Eschatological Hope: Pseudo-Denys and Jacques Derrida
King's College (London), 03/2006
Developing Discontinuity: Imperious Reason and the Broken Body in Origen's Allegorical Exegesis
Annual meeting of the Society of the Study of Theology, 03/2005
Awards
François Furet Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2011
Theology Faculty Studentship, Oxford University, 2006-07
Clarendon Fund Bursary, Oxford University, 2006-07
Overseas Research Student Award, Universities UK, 2004-06
Edward Dodd Prize, Washington and Lee University, 2003
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