Teaching Experience

At Virginia Commonwealth University

Advanced Focused Inquiry: Ethics, Society, Gender, and Politics as Aspects of Human Freedom in the Thoughts of Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt (Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, four sections each semester)

• These are seminar-style, interdisciplinary, more advanced general education courses that aim to further develop undergraduate students’ academic research and soft skills, with three specific learning foci: theory, research, and communication.

Focused Inquiry I & II (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, four sections each semester)

• These are seminar-style, interdisciplinary, general education courses that aim to cultivate incoming undergraduate students’ critical thinking and academic writing skills, focusing on five specific learning goals: information literacy, ethical reasoning, global and cultural responsiveness, communicative fluency, and critical and/or creative problem-solving. 

Specific philosophical topics taught in these three courses: critical thinking (as applied especially to contemporary social and news media); topics in the philosophy of race and gender; introduction to existentialism; how totalitarianism and fascism work; the tenability of cultural-ethical relativism; two prevalent conceptions of the good life (hedonism, desire satisfaction theory); topics in biomedical ethics

At the College of William & Mary

Chinese Philosophy (Spring 2020)

20th Century Continental European Philosophy (Spring 2020)

The Human Self: Western and Chinese Perspectives (Spring 2020)

Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2019, two sections)

Critical Thinking (Fall 2019)

At Grinnell College

Philosophy of Race and Gender (Spring 2018)

Contemporary Ethical Issues: Multicultural Perspectives (Fall 2018)

Topics in Social Philosophy: Self, Others, and Society (Fall 2018)

Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Fall 2017)

20th Century Continental European Philosophy (Spring 2018)

19th Century European Philosophy (Fall 2017, Fall 2018)

Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2017, Spring 2019)

Critical Thinking (Spring 2019)

Guided Reading Tutorial: Nietzsche’s Philosophy (Spring 2019)

At Mount Holyoke College

Philosophy of Race and Racism (Fall 2015)

Existentialism (Fall 2016)

Topics in Social Philosophy: Post-Hegelian Philosophies of Social Recognition (Fall 2016)

Early Modern Western Philosophy (Spring 2016; Spring 2017)

First-Year Students Course: Being Human (Fall 2015)

At Skidmore College

Ethics (Fall 2013; Spring 2015)

Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Spring 2015)

Philosophy of Human Embodiment in 20th Century Philosophy (Spring 2015)

20th Century Continental European Philosophy (Spring 2014)

Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2013 and Fall 2014, two sections each semester; Spring 2014, one section)

At Dickinson College

Phenomenology (Spring 2013)

19th Century European Philosophy (Spring 2013)

Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2012, two sections; Spring 2013, one section)

At Concordia University

Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (an advanced undergraduate/graduate course)

Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Self and Other in early Heidegger, early Sartre, Buber, and early Levinas (an advanced undergraduate/graduate course)

Biomedical Ethics (an intermediate undergraduate course)

From Modern to Postmodern (an intermediate undergraduate survey course on Western modern and contemporary philosophy and social thought)