Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Public Philosophy
- “Vulnerability, Freedom, and Political Transformation.” Blog of the American Philosophical Association: Women in Philosophy Series. January 31, 2020 (Online).
Book Reviews
- Review of Rajiv Kaushik’s Merleau-Ponty Between Philosophy and Symbolism: The Matrixed Ontology (SUNY, 2019). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, June 18, 2020.
- Review of Susan Bredlau’s The Other in Perception: A Phenomenological Account of Our Experience of Other Persons (SUNY, 2018). Continental Philosophy Review Vol 52, no. 4 (2020): 419-23.
- Review of Don Beith’s The Birth of Sense: Generative Passivity in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy (Ohio UP, 2018). Environmental Philosophy Vol. 16, no. 1 (2019): 241-44.
- Review of Judith Wambacq's Thinking Between Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty (Ohio University Press, 2017), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, July 19, 2018.
- Review of Scott Marratto's The Intercorporeal Self: Merleau-Ponty on Subjectivity (State University of New York Press, 2012), Symposium, March 19, 2013.
Dissertation
- Vulnerability and Security: Merleau-Ponty on Personal and Political Life.
Selected Professional Presentations
- “Freedom and Form: Merleau-Ponty, Dewey, and the Aesthetic Nature of Political Transformation." Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Boston, MA: March 28-30, 2024.
- “Arendt’s Phenomenology of Political Existence: Plurality, Visibility, and Power in the U.S. Disability Rights Movement.” University of Guelph Philosophy Speaker Series. Guelph, ON: January 26, 2023.
- “The Virtue of Vulnerability: Merleau-Ponty and Minuchin on the Boundaries of PersonalIdentity.” The International Merleau-Ponty Circle. Washington, DC: November 10-12, 2022.
- “The Poverty and Richness of the Imaginary: Sartre on (Anti-)Racist Ways of Seeing.” The North American Sartre Society. Online: October 29-30, 2021.
- “Essential Insecurity: Humanism, Violence, and Political Action in Merleau-Ponty and Fanon.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Online: September 24-25, 2021.
- “Phenomenological Variation and Multicultural Transformation.” Philosophy Colloquium. Oakland University. Online: December 4, 2020.
- “Essential Insecurity: History, Action, and Tragedy in Merleau-Ponty,” Philosophy Colloquium Series, Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI: February 7, 2020.
- “‘The Separation That is Not a Separation But a Form of Union’: Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Object Relations Theory in Dialogue.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Pittsburgh, PA: October 31-November 2, 2019.
- “Palimpsestic Transformations: Religion, Multiculturalism, and Phenomenology as a Critical Practice.” The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy. Lennoxville, QC: September 26-28, 2019.
- “The ‘Great Phantom’: Merleau-Ponty on Habitus, Freedom, and Political Transformation.” The International Merleau-Ponty Circle. New York, NY: September 12-14, 2019.
- “‘The Courage for Anxiety’: Resoluteness, Repetition, and Historicity in Being and Time.” Bishop University’s Heidegger Symposium. Lennoxville, QC: November 10, 2018."
- On Vulnerability and Security: Syncretic Experience, Recognition, and the Intercorporeal Formation of Selfhood in Merleau-Ponty," The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (Calgary, AB: November 15-17, 2018).
- "Vulnerability, Destiny, and Responsibility in Oedipus Rex," Seminar on Greek Tragedy (Windsor, ON: January 20, 2018).
- "(Un)Healthy Systems: Merleau-Ponty, Dewey, and the Dynamic Equilibrium Between Self and Environment,” The International Merleau-Ponty Circle (Albuquerque, NM, November 2-4, 2017); Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences Memphis, TN: October 19-21, 2017).
- “Freedom as (Self-)Expression: Natality and the Temporality of Action in Bergson, Arendt, and Merleau-Ponty,” The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (Toronto, ON: September 28-30, 2017).
- “Eros and Logos: An Interpretation of Merleau-Ponty’s ‘The Body as a Sexed Being,’” The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (Halifax, NS: September 29-October 1, 2016); Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (Salt Lake City, UT: October 20-22, 2016).
- “The ‘Great Phantom’: Merleau-Ponty on Habit, Group Life, and Political Solidarity,” Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Washington, D.C., January 6-8, 2016).
- “Habits of Autonomy: Merleau-Ponty, Feminist Philosophy, and the Virtue of Vulnerability,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (New Orleans, October 23-25, 2014); philoSOPHIA (State College, PA, May 1-4, 2014).
- “Home Invasions: Embodiment, Vulnerability, and Breakdown in Merleau-Ponty,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (Eugene, OR, October 24-26, 2013)
- “The Phantom Organic: Merleau-Ponty and the Psychoanalysis of Nature,” International Merleau-Ponty Circle (Pittsburgh, PA, September 26-28, 2013) [*Winner of the M. C. Dillon Award for best paper by a graduate student]; Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (Toronto, ON, October 10-12, 2013).
- “Knowing the Difference: Eros and Writing in Plato’s Phaedrus,” Pennsylvania Circle of Ancient Philosophy (Pittsburgh, PA, February 16-17, 2013).
- “‘We Have Yet to Become Human’”: Reappropriating Universal Human Rights with Judith Butler,” On the Concept of Life in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Participants’ Conference, Collegium Phaenomenologicum (Cittá di Castello, Italy, July 7-8, 2012).
- “Positioning Foucault: Critique in the Face of the Blackmail of the Enlightenment,” Actuality and the Idea, (Princeton, NJ, May 11-12, 2012).
- “Phenomenology as First-Order Perception: Speech, Vision, and Reflection in Merleau-Ponty,” Re-approaching the Foundations of Phenomenology (New York, NY, March 30-31, 2012).
- “The Philosophical Life as the Practice of ‘Dying and Being Dead’: Plato’s Phaedo and the Death of Socrates,” Plato and the Experience of Philosophy (Guelph, ON, November 11-12, 2012).
- “‘There is Still Life’: Torture, Vulnerability, and the Body,” Global Justice, the Environment, and the Economy, Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (Victoria, BC, October 14-16, 2011) [*Winner of CSWIP’s award for the best paper by a graduate student].