Teaching

Courses Taught

Note: I'm happy to serve as an external advisor on dissertation committees, but I am primarily at an undergraduate institution with no graduate program, so do not oversee graduate students directly. Please email me with questions.

Smith College (January 2024 to present)

Philosophy Electives

• PHI 127: Indian Philosophy

• PHI 233: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

• PHI 253 Topics in Indian Philosophy – Buddhists and Brahmins

• PHI 258 Topics in Philosophy of Language – Metaphor

Yale-NUS (2015-2023)

Philosophy Electives

• Analogical Reasoning & Metaphor (3000 level)

• Buddhists and Brahmins (4000 level)

• Classical Indian Philosphy (2000 level)

• Classical Indian Philosophy of Language (3000 level)

• Debate and Reasoning in Indian Philosophy (3000 level)

• Doing Things with Words (4000 level) 

• Global Philosophy of Metaphor (3000 level)

• Philosophy Capstone Seminar

• Slurs, Insults, and Hate Speech (3000 level)

Common Curriculum

• Historical Immersion course: Hinduism, Nationalism, and the Bhagavad Gita in the 20th century (3000 level)

• Philosophy and Political Thought 1 (1000 level)

• Philosophy and Political Thought 2 (1000 level)

Independent Studies

• Introduction to Analytic Philosophy of Language

• Fiction and Fictionalism

• Sanskrit Language

• Vasubandhu's Triṃśikā or Thirty Verses (on Consciousness-Only)