A more systematic list of my completed writing projects can be found on my CV. My CV also provides a comprehensive list of conference presentations, as well as other talks, that I've given. I'm happy to provide working drafts upon request.
Dissertation
My dissertation is titled Bad Feelings, Feeling Badly: Caring for the Emotions. It is a call for recognizing the emotions as normatively evaluable, that is, as things that can be judged as better or worse full-stop, rather than (merely) as better or worse for a particular person at a particular time. I argue that emotions have historically been undertheorized as the instruments of injustice and propose ‘attentive care,’ a re-reading of care ethics in accordance with Iris Murdoch’s writings on loving attention, as a way of clarifying our moral obligations toward others’ emotions. I draw from critical disability studies throughout the dissertation, arguing that too little attention has been paid to the distinctly affective dimensions of ableist prejudice, and that the extant literature on affective injustice cannot yet account for the weaponization of emotional expectations. That is, I elucidate the ways that existing work on emotions and injustice has focused on particular emotions, and not the broader set of cultural scripts and norms that dictate how we ‘ought’ to respond or behave.
Projects
As of October 2025, my paper "Resisting Reclamation: Intra-Community Hierarchies and the R-Slur" has been accepted for publication in Social Epistemology. A draft manuscript is available here (Google Docs). This paper offers a critique of nascent efforts to reclaim the r-slur – referred to throughout the manuscript as the r-word so as not to beg the question of its normative status – grounded in Linda Martín Alcoff’s groundbreaking “The Problem of Speaking for Others.” In it, I argue that the question of the r-word’s reclamation fails to take into account the intra-community hierarchies that are reified when only some members of a slurred community – in this case, the community consisting of neurodivergent people & those with intellectual disability, as well as others targeted by the r-word – are able to participate in a slur’s reclamation. I begin by discussing slur reclamation more generally, before using Alcoff’s work, alongside the writings of Emmalon Davis and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, to show why the reclamation of the r-word is fundamentally different than that of other slurs.
My essay "What a Shame She 'Went Mad': Taylor Swift on Anger, Madness, and Affective Injustice" was published in Taylor Swift and Philosophy (Wiley, 2024). This paper is an application of my other research (including that in my dissertation) on the affective injustice paradigm. I recently finished preparing another manuscript on affective injustice which posits the usefulness of a non-uptake-based account of it. This manuscript is under review.
Other works-in-progress include:
A coauthored project examining the relationship between healthcare workers' moral distress and injustice.
A manuscript considering the ethics AI-powered psychotherapy -- what I call "clincaLLMs" -- particularly as judged against the American Psychological Association's Code of Ethics, and the ethical principles & protections given to research subjects as outlined by the Belmont Report.
STSS
I am completing a graduate certificate in Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STSS). My STSS portfolio, which will be linked here as soon as it is complete, explores the use of metaphor in popular communications about science, technology, and medicine. Metaphors that I am concerned with in the project include:
The use of combative metaphors in conversations about cancers and other serious illnesses (e.g., describing someone as 'battling' against cancer, 'losing the fight' to the disease, and so on).
Whether the use of the word 'literacy' in phrases like 'AI literacy,' is metaphorical. This is of particular concern to me given the ways that AI is be pushed into education concurrent with the decline of traditional literacy in American schools.
The metaphorical nature of 'social' in 'social media' given that social media platforms can incentivize apathy rather than sociality.
Miscellaneous
My miscellaneous projects, including book reviews and blog posts, are linked on my CV.