I am a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Emory University. Recently, I was also a visiting fellow at Tilburg University, in the Netherlands (Spring 2022). I am writing a dissertation on Levinas's philosophy of time, in particular on his concept of diachrony. My interests include French philosophy, ethics, and Neoplatonism.

Areas of Research

AOS: 20th-Century Continental Philosophy, Ethics

AOC: Ancient Philosophy, Neoplatonism, Philosophy of Religion

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, Emory University, exp. 2024

Dissertation: Levinas’s Diachronic Thought [Abstract]Director: Andrew J. Mitchell

M.A., Philosophy, Emory University, 2021

B.A., Philosophy, Middlebury College, 2018

Graduated Summa Cum Laude with Highest Honors in PhilosophyAndrews Prize in Philosophy, Baker Award in Russian, Woolsey Prize in ReligionPhi Beta Kappa (early induction)

Visiting Fellow, Tilburg University, Feb—May 2022
Visiting Student, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Feb—Jun 2014

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 

“Levinas on Separation: Metaphysical, Semantic, Affective.” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 28, no. 2 (2024): 429-452. [doi] [Abstract]

“Peirce’s Imaginative Community.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 58, no. 1 (2022): 1-21. [doi] [Abstract] *Winner of the Peirce Essay Prize

“Freedom and Praxis in Plotinus’s Ennead 6.8.1-6.” Archai 30 (2020): e03031. [doi] [Abstract]

“Teleology and Nous in Plotinus’s Ennead 6.7.” Kriterion 61, no. 147 (2020): 609-632. [doi] [Abstract]


Under Review

Paper on Levinas, Plato, and Meaning - Revise & Resubmit


Undergraduate Journal Articles

“Phenomenology and Conceptualism.” Logos: The Cornell Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy XIV (2018): 25-44, ranked 2nd best submission.

“Looks, Gestures, and Words: Skepticism and the Ethical in Cavell and Levinas.” Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College IV (2017): 6-24. [doi]

Presentations

Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations 

“The Memory of the Immemorial.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY), September 2024.

“Two Senses of Deformalization in Levinas.” Société Internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas, Emmanuel Levinas Center (Kaunas, Lithuania), July 2024.

“Levinas, Descartes, and Temporal Solipsism.” Centro Brasileiro de Estudos Levinasianos, Jornadas Levinasianas (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), June 2024.

“Levinas on Semantic Separation.” Société Internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas, Emmanuel Levinas Center (Kaunas, Lithuania), July 2023.

“The Homelessness of Eros: Levinas with Plato.” Ancient Philosophy Society, Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA), April 2023.

“The Alibi of Metaphysics.” Metaphysical Society of America, Emory University (Atlanta, GA), March 2023.

“Ethics as the Mediation of Ontology.” Summer Conference in Continental Ethics: Levinas, Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania), June 2022.

“Levinas, Plato, and the Metaphysics of Separation.” Metaphysical Society of America, Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI), March 2022.

“Peirce’s Imaginative Community.” APA Eastern Division, Charles S. Peirce Society Session  (Baltimore, MD), January 2022.

“Human Reciprocity and Divine Asymmetry.” North American Levinas Society, St. Michael's College (Colchester, VT), July 2021.

“Levinas’s Wounded Speech.” North American Levinas Society, Drake University (Des Moines, IA), July 2019.

“Divine Polyvalence: God and Metaphor in Levinas and Eriugena.” Mystical Theology Network, Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA), March 2019.

“The Epiphany of the Face: Levinas and the Ethical-Religious Attitude.” Graduate Conference in Philosophy, San Diego State University (San Diego, CA), October 2015.


Departmental Talks

“Levinas on Creation Ex Nihilo.” Friday Philosophy Forum, Emory University (Atlanta, GA), September 2022.

“Levinas, Plato, and the Metaphysics of Separation.” PHC&E Seminar, Tilburg University (Tilburg, Netherlands), April 2022.

“Two Aporias in Levinas’s Politics.” Friday Philosophy Forum, Emory University (Atlanta, GA), September 2021.

“Freedom and Praxis in Plotinus’s Ennead 6.8.1-6.” Friday Philosophy Forum, Emory University (Atlanta, GA), September 2020.

“Levinas Reading Descartes.” Friday Philosophy Forum, Emory University (Atlanta, GA), September 2019.

“God and Language in Levinas’s Theory of Metaphor.” Friday Philosophy Forum, Emory University (Atlanta, GA), April 2019.

“Ethics as First Philosophy: Responses to Skepticism in Levinas and Cavell.” Spring Student Symposium, Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT), April 2018.

Teaching

Emory University

as Instructor of Record

as Teaching Assistant


Middlebury College

as Peer-Tutor in Philosophy