Currently: Completing a post-doctorate under Professor Sarah Coakley at Cambridge University, on a project that involves three postdoctoral fellows in cosmology, evolutionary biology and cognitive neuroscience.
Currently: Founder of Continuum Philosophical Insight, a private philosophical education practice bringing thinking beyond the university.
Dissertation: Nudus Sequens?: St. Thomas Aquinas on Poverty and Christian Perfection, 2014
In this category students develop their skills for critical analysis through intense engagement with works of literature, philosophy, visual arts, music, and film. The works studied may be associated with a particular country, time period, genre, or theme. Students will learn to use techniques of literary and artistic analysis. At the same time they will become familiar with disciplinary and interdisciplinary methods of argument and persuasion. Because intensive reading and writing is demanded in these courses, they will generally be capped at 30 students.
Los Angeles has been mocked as a city 500 miles wide and two inches deep. It is famous for its movies and music, but critics claim that it lacks cultural depth. This course seeks to prove otherwise. The region of Southern California has a remarkably rich literary heritage extending deep into its past, and over the past two decades, Los Angeles has become a pre-eminent center of literary creativity in the United States, the home of a new generation of writers whose work address questions and concerns of special significance as we confront the problems of 21st century urban America including ethnic friction, environmental crises, social inequality, and problems associated with uprootedness and materialism. Study of the literature of this region can help perform one of the vital roles of education in a democracy and in this urban region famous for its fragmentation and the powerful allure of the image: It can teach us to listen more carefully to the rich mix of voices that compose the vox populi of Los Angeles, and thus it can help create a deeper, broader sense of our common ground.