Teaching

I am the Placement Director at Fordham University, serving through the end of 2023 (and previously in 2020-21 as well).

My teaching interests are in the history of philosophy, especially the early modern period, ethics, feminist philosophy, and philosophy and literature.

I am committed to incorporating "new narratives" in the history of philosophy into my teaching and research, especially those that allow us to include forgotten, dismissed, or unappreciated voices. For resources connected to these efforts, see Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy, Center for New Narratives in Philosophy, and Project Vox.

Some of my syllabi are available on my academia.edu page here.

Selected Upcoming and Recent Classes

Jane Austen and Moral Philosophy (Fordham and Columbia)

Early Modern Philosophy: Self and World (Fordham)

Existentialism and Literature (Fordham)

Ethics in the Enlightenment (Fordham)

The Philosophical Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Fordham, Graduate Seminar)

Moral Emotions (Fordham, Graduate Seminar)

Philosophical Ethics (Fordham)

Literature Humanities (Columbia)

Hume's Ethics (Fordham and Harvard)

In Summer 2023 I was a co-instructor for a three-week residential program for high school students from the Bronx, Visions of the Good in the Bronx, funded through the Teagle Foundation and directed by Stephen Grimm. This program aims to introduce rising seniors to college-level work in philosophy and the humanities, while also aiding with college readiness.

For two years I served as the Head Teaching Fellow for a unique Harvard course, Humanities 10: An Introductory Humanities Colloquium. This position afforded me the opportunity to work with faculty and graduate students from a variety of departments, to develop and implement a tailored plan for writing instruction, and to teach texts that standardly fall outside of the philosophy classroom. This class has been written about here and is described here.