Teaching

Courses:

At Duke Kunshan University (CN)

• Ethics, Citizenship, and the Examined Life 

• Ethics and Leadership

At the University of Konstanz (DE)

Survey Courses/Intro Lectures

• Introduction to Philosophical Writing

• Introduction to Philosophy of Religion

• Introduction to Philosophy of Sport 

• Islamic Philosophy

Undergraduate Seminars

• The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem

• Forgotten Philosophers? Neglected Philosophies?

• Games, Life, Utopia: Bernard Suits' The Grasshopper

• Integrity

• Longing, Suffering, and Love in Medieval Christian and Islamic Mysticism (+ international workshop)

• Nietzsche & Religion: Critic? Despiser? Atheist?

• Peter Abelard’s Ethics

• Themes from Harry Frankfurt

• The Role of Emotion in Religious Experience (+international workshop)

• Rudolf Otto’s Das Heilige

Graduate/Advanced Seminars

• 14th c. German Mysticism: Eckhart, Seuse, Tauler

• Cheating in Sport: Philosophical Questions

• Classical & Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion

• Epistemic Injustice and Epistemological Resistance (+ optional summer school)

• Knowing God, Loving God, Being God...? Classical Theism & the Religious Imagination

• Philosophical Models of Religious Faith (+ optional summer school)

• Religious Experience 

• Religious Pluralism (+ optional summer school)

• Self-Deception: Philosophical and Psychological Questions

• Understanding Religion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (+ optional summer school)

At Mt. Mercy College (USA)

• Introduction to Ethics (for professional students)

At the University of Iowa (USA)

• Introduction to Philosophy 

• Principles of Reasoning (introduction to logic/critical thinking) 

• Introduction to Ethics (T.A.)

• Philosophy and Human Nature (T.A.)

• Philosophy and the Just Society (T.A.)

Other Teaching:

Seminar Leader, University of Konstanz (DE)

• Mini-Seminar for First-Generation Students: "Selbstbewusst und Fair in den Seminaren: Aktive Teilnahme, respektvolle Diskussionskultur" (October 2017)

Guest Lecturer, North-West University (Potchefstroom, ZA)

• Honors Seminar in Philosophy of Religion: "Ontotheology, the Realism Debate, and the Religious Imagination" (March 2017)

Guest Lecturer, Imam Khomeini International University (Qazvin, IR)

• Seminar for Faculty and PhD Students: "Philosophical Models of Faith - Cognitive, Affective, Volitional" (October 2015)

Co-Instructor and Philosophy Group Leader (Castle Neuhaus, Gais, IT)

• Philosophical-Theological Academy: "Religion(en) Verstehen" (August 2018)

• Philosophical-Theological Academy: "Religiöser Pluralismus" (October 2017)

• Philosophical-Theological Academy: "Un/Endlichkeiten" (October 2016)

• Philosophical-Theological Academy: "Glaube/Faith" (August 2015)

• Philosophical-Theological Academy: "Religiöse Sehnsucht" (August 2014)

Seminar Leader, Philipps-Universität Marburg (DE)

• "Das Bewerben im englischsprachigen Ausland" (January 2010)

• "Academic Presentation Skills: Applying to and Presenting at English-Language Conferences in the Humanities" (November 2009)

Tutor for Scientific Writing in English, Philipps-Universität Marburg (DE)

• 2009-2010

 Foreign Language Adjunct in English, Gymnasium Wolbeck (Münster, DE)

• 2002-2003

Teaching Assistant & Tutor, St. Olaf College (Minnesota, USA)

• German Department, 1998-2002

• Philosophy Department, 2000-2001