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EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Chicago, Philosophy

B.A., summa cum laude, Case Western Reserve University, Philosophy and Biology

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Ethics (broadly construed but centered on the history of ethical theories), Aesthetics, Kant, German Idealism (including Romanticism), 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy (especially Heidegger), American Philosophy (especially Emerson and Thoreau), Philosophy of Poetry and Literature, Philosophy and Film

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Ancient and Early Modern Philosophy, History of Political Philosophy, Applied Ethics

FOREIGN LANGUAGES      

Reading knowledge of German, French, Attic Greek, and some Latin

BOOKS (PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING)

1. Transcendental Philosophy and Poetry in Early German Romanticism, co-editor (in preparation for Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry).

2. Novalis: Writings on Nature and Natural Science, with William S. Davis (well underway and under contract with Oxford University Press).

3. Novalis’s Philosophical Fictions: Magical Idealism in Context (forthcoming, Oxford University Press: 2026).

4. Novalis: Philosophical, Literary, and Poetic Writings Writings (English translations of a substantial selection of philosophical, literary, and poetic writings, supplemented with correspondence, from Novalis Schriften. Die Werke Friedrich von Hardenbergs [Historisch-kritische Ausgabe], Oxford University Press: 2024).

5. Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch: Philosophical Perspectives, with Candace R. Craig (Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield: December 2019).

6. Heidegger’s Moral Ontology (Cambridge University Press: November 2018).

7. The Question Concerning the Thing: On Kant’s Doctrine of the Transcendental Principles, a translation with Benjamin D. Crowe of Band 41 of Martin Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe (Rowman & Littlefield: 2018).

8. Being Here is Glorious: On Rilke, Poetry, and Philosophy, with a new English translation of the Duineser Elegien (Northwestern University Press: September 2015).

9. Thoreau’s Importance for Philosophy, co-edited with Rick Anthony Furtak and Jonathan Ellsworth (Fordham University Press: August 2012).

MONOGRAPHS IN PROGRESS

1. Morality on Film: The Cinematic Worlds of Terrence Malick

2. A Philosophy of Health and Wellness

3. Poetry, Inwardness, and Place: Reading Rilke’s ‘Sonnets to Orpheus

4. Freedom, Nature, and the Moral Life: A Study in Kantian Ethics 

ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, ETC.

1. 1. 1.   “Thoreau” in The History of Platonism in the Modern Age, Volume 5, eds. John M. Corrigan & Alexander J. B. Hampton (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).

      2. “Philosophy and Poetry After Kant,” editors’ Introduction to Transcendental Philosophy and Poetry in Early German Romanticism.

      3. “Friedrich Schlegel and the Idea of Transcendental Poetry: A Reading of Lucinde” in Transcendental Philosophy and Poetry in Early German Romanticism.

      4. ‘Poetry is the Hero of Philosophy’: Fiction and Truth in Novalis’s Poesie” in preparation for a volume on the imagination in the history of European philosophy, ed. Dániel Kovács and Attila Hangai (forthcoming, Routledge).

      5. “Heidegger on Poetry” in The Oxford Handbook of Heidegger, ed. Tobias Keiling, Ian Alexander Moore, and Katherine Withy (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).

      6. “Ein Mund der Natur: Poetry, Phenomenology, and Place in Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus” in Rilke’s Poetry and Phenomenology’s Horizons, ed. Brad Harmon and Alexander Sorenson (forthcoming, De Gruyter).

      7. “Melville Among the Transcendentalists: Doubt and Affirmation in Emerson and Moby-Dick” in ‘Moby-Dick; or, The Whale’: Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Dean Moyar (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).

      8. Review Essay on Owen Ware’s Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature (Oxford University Press), Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, Volume 12, Issue 2 (3 December 2025): 181-9.

      9. “Fichte und Novalis,” in the Fichte Handbuch, ed. Matteo Vincenzo d’Alfonso & Christian Klotz (Nomos: 2025).

      10. Freedom in Nature: The Moral of Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgment,” Studia Philosophica Kantiana, 1.2025: 129-147.

      11. “‘Why Should I Be Good If You Aren’t?’: The Problem of the Moral World in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life”, with Candace R. Craig in Life Above the Clouds: Philosophy in the Films of Terrence Malick, ed. Steven DeLay (SUNY Press: February 2023).

      12. “Novalis’s Hemsterhuis Studies: A Complete Translation with Commentary,” Symphilosophie (December 2022).

      13.  “Novalis’s Poetic Philosophy of Nature: A Partial Translation of Die Lehrlinge zu Sais with Commentary,” Symphilosophie (December 2021).

      14.   “Ding.” The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon, ed. Mark Wrathall (Cambridge University Press: August 2021).

      15. “Gut.” The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon, ed. Mark Wrathall (Cambridge University Press: August 2021).

      16.  “Realität.” The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon, ed. Mark Wrathall (Cambridge University Press: August 2021).

      17.  “Wirklichkeit.” The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon, ed. Mark Wrathall (Cambridge University Press: August 2021).

      18. “Novalis’s Philosophical Fictions: Love, Reason, and the Given from the Fichte-Studies to the Hymns to the Night,” European Journal of Philosophy (February 2020).

      19. “On Inwardness and Place in Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus.” Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives, ed. Hannah Eldridge and Luke Fischer (Oxford University Press: July 2019).

      20. “The Time Is Out of Joint: Social Ontology and Criticism in Kierkegaard and Heidegger,” with Rick Anthony Furtak, in Kierkegaard and Political Theology, ed. Roberto Sirvent (Pickwick: March 2018).

      21. “Thoreau and American Philosophy: Authors’ Response,” with Rick Anthony Furtak. Thoreau Society Bulletin (Fall 2013): 9-10.

      22.  “Situating Thoreau,” co-authored Introduction to Thoreau’s Importance for Philosophy (Fordham University Press: August 2012).

      23. “Speaking Extravagantly: Philosophical Territory and Eccentricity in Walden” in Thoreau’s Importance for Philosophy (Fordham University Press: August 2012).

      24. “Ethical Criticism in Heidegger’s Early Freiburg Lectures.” The Review of Metaphysics 59 (September 2005): 33-71.

      25. “Morality and Sensibility in Kant: Toward a Theory of Virtue.” Kantian Review 8 (2004): 89-114.

      26. “The Unity of Theoretical Subjectivity in Kant and Fichte.” The Review of Metaphysics 57 (December 2003): 243-277.

      27. “Dilthey’s Epistemology of the Geisteswissenschaften: Between Lebensphilosophie and Wissenschaftstheorie.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (July 2001): 407-436.

REVIEWS

1. 1. 1.  Christian Jany, Scenographies of Perception: Sensuousness in Hegel, Novalis, Rilke, and Proust (Legenda: Studies in Comparative Literature), Monatshefte vol. 112, no. 3 (Fall 2020): 555-7.

      2. Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge, Lyric Orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community (Cornell University Press), German Studies Review 40.3 (October 2017): 642-644.

      3. S. J. McGrath, The Early Heidegger and Medieval Philosophy (Catholic

        University Press of America), published in the Journal of the History of

     Philosophy 45:4 (October 2007), 674-6.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

1. Maul, R.S., Reid, J.D., IV, and Kaetzel, D.M., Jr. “Identification of a cell type-specific enhancer in the distal 5’-region of platelet-derived growth factor A-chain gene” in the Journal of Biological Chemistry 273(50) 239-246 (1998).

2. Schilling, D., Reid, J.D., IV, Hujer, A., Morgan, D., DeMoll, E., Bummer, P., Fenstermaker, R.A., and Kaetzel, D.M., Jr. “Loop III region of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) B-chain mediates binding to PDGF receptors and heparin” in Biochemical Journal 333: 637-644 (1998).

3. Kaetzel, D.M., Jr., Reid, J.D., IV, Pedigo, N., Zimmer, S.G, and Boghaert, E.R. “A dominant-negative mutant of the platelet-derived growth factor A-chain increases survival of hamsters implanted with the highly invasive CxT24-neo3 glioblastoma cell line” in Journal of Neuro-Oncology 39: 33-46 (1998).

4. Kaetzel, D.M., Jr., Morgan, D.L., III, Reid, J.D., IV, and Fenstermaker, R.A.  “Site-directed mutagenesis of the N-linked glycosylation site in platelet-derived growth factor B-chain results in diminished intracellular retention” in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1298: 250-260. (1996).

HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

 National Endowment for the Humanities, Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions ($60,000) to support work on two interlocking projects on the German philosopher-poet Novalis (a translation and a monograph)

Residential Fellowship at the National Humanities Center (alternate)

National Endowment for the Humanities, Editions and Translations grant ($158,000) for work on an English translation of Heidegger’s Die Frage nach dem Ding

E. M. Adams Prize Essay Competition, UNC Chapel Hill (finalist)

Wayne C. Booth Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Chicago

Manley Thompson Memorial Prize for the best preliminary essay in the Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago

Century Fellowship, University of Chicago

Golden Key Honor Society

Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society (Junior Year)

Western Reserve Award for highest GPA, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)

Francis Hobart Herrick Award in Biology, CWRU

Handy Prize in Philosophy, CWRU

Howard Hughes Grants for Undergraduate Research in the Life Sciences (twice), CWRU

Mastin Scholarship in Biology, CWRU

Undergraduate Research Fellowship awarded by the Department of Pharmacology, CWRU

American Heart Association Undergraduate Research Fellowship, CWRU 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Special (Covid) 2021 panel for the National Endowment for the Humanities (invitation declined, current applicants for NEH funding deemed ineligible)

2020 APA Central Division Meeting Committee Member (invitation declined)

Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities (2019)

Ongoing referee for several academic presses, including Cambridge, Oxford, Routledge, Fordham, SUNY, and Bloomsbury

Referee for a number of professional journals, including Inquiry, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Journal of the History of Philosophy, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, European Journal of Philosophy, Epoché, Open Library of Humanities, Environmental Philosophy

Co-Founder of the Seminar in Phenomenology and the History of Philosophy, with Clinton Tolley (UCSD) and Matthew Shockey (Indiana University, South Bend)

Co-Founder and Editor of Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry, with Rick Anthony Furtak (Colorado College)