I study responsibility, social interpretation, and emotion using a pluralist set of philosophical resources, including 20th-century European philosophy, social epistemology, feminist philosophy, moral psychology, and philosophical hermeneutics. I also maintain a research program on the life and work of Hannah Arendt.
My current research includes: an article on the distinctive place of the town hall in Arendt’s vision for participatory democratic institutions; an article on ‘political speechlessness’; an article on friendship and politics; and a monograph on the emotions of being socially (but not agentially) affiliated with wrongdoing. I also teach broadly in the history of philosophy.
Recent Publications
“Towards a ‘Strong’ Normativity of Fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle,” Southern Journal of Philosophy (Forthcoming, 2025)
“Does Forward-Looking Responsibility Have an Accountability Problem?,” Social Theory and Practice (Forthcoming, 2025)
“What are Hermeneutical Resources? Nondiscursive Self-Interpretation and Gendered Embodiment,” Hypatia (2025)
“Feeling Responsible: On Regret for Others’ Harms,” Philosophy (2024)
Recent Courses
PHIL 23207 Phenomenology and Existentialism
This course introduces students to key concepts, texts, and figures from the phenomenological tradition as it emerged and developed in Germany and France over the late-19th and 20th centuries. Students will engage with questions of intentionality, temporality, embodiment, finitude, and meaning-making. The course will pay particular attention to continuities and discontinuities between key figures. Major figures covered include Edmund Husserl, Edith Stein, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, and Jean-Paul Sartre. (B)
At least one previous course in philosophy.