MWF 1-3pm
Areas of Responsibility:Teaching: Philosophy, Jewish-Christian Studies, and General Education
Administration: Department Chair, Philosophy and Religion; Assistant Moderator, Faculty Assembly
PHL 201
PHL 251
PHL 310
REL 245
REL 345
COR 101
Upcoming: presenting paper on Sartre and Benjamin at SPEP
Recent publication: “Bodies, Communities, Faith: Christian Legacies in Jean-Luc Nancy," Spring 2013 in Analecta Hermeneutica. No 4(2012).
"The Failure of Hate: Anti-Semitism and Hate in Sartre" in Philosophy Today, Spring 2010;
"'And G-d Said:' Language, Translation, and Scripture in Two Works by Walter Benjamin." In Shofar: An Inter-Disciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Purdue University Press, Spring 2009;
"'Catholic' Continental Philosophers: Nancy and Vattimo on Incarnation and Christianity," in Via Media, Cambridge Scholars Press, Fall 2009.
"No Other Place to Be: Globalization, Monotheism, and Salut in Nancy" in "Thinking Plural:Expositions of Jean-Luc Nancy on World, Art, and Meaning", SUNY Press, 2012.
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Wesleyan Theological Society (Planning Committee)
Wesleyan Philosophical Society (President)
Studied in Berlin, Germany for 4 months as part of the Richardson Fellowship through DePaul University.
My favorite thing about working at Greenville College is the camaraderie that exists between faculty, staff, and students. The community is close-knit-I worship with those I teach; my children go to school with my colleagues' children. There's a strong sense that we're all in this together, and we work hard to maintain a feeling of consensus and love, even when we disagree.
What attracted me to philosophy was simply that I could not master it-it sounds stuck-up, I know! Philosophy kept me up at night with questions that wouldn't stop coming; philosophy keeps me humble by constantly reminding me how little I know or can know. It encourages me to think critically and historically about situations, rather than just taking them at face value. Whether it's a social problem like poverty, or a political issue, or my daughter's behavior, my discipline points me in the direction of asking questions rather than assuming I have all the answers.
