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Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Education

PhD (Currently ABD), Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
MA, Philosophy, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON (2013).
BA Honours, Contemporary Studies & History, University of King’s College, Halifax, NS, (2010).

AOS: Ethics, Moral Psychology
AOC: Philosophy of Emotions, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Bioethics

Research Interests

Empathy, medical humanities, embodiment, experiences of health and illness, grief and loss, intersubjectivity, moral development, emotions, habits and habit development/change, animality.

Academic Appointments

2024- Senior Faculty Fellow, Foundation Year Program, University of King’s College (Halifax, NS).
2022-23 Instructor, Contemporary Studies, University of King’s College (Halifax, NS).
2020-23 Faculty Fellow, Foundation Year Program, University of King’s College (Halifax, NS).

Peer-Reviewed Publication

• “Grief, Phantoms, and Re-membering Loss” Forthcoming in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy Vol. 34, No. 3 (2020), 284-296.

Conference Presentations

• “Grief, Phantoms, and Re-membering Loss”
  Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Pittsburgh, PA (2019). [PDF of program].
• “Empathy, Perspective, Parallax”
  International Merleau-Ponty Circle (IMPC), New York, NY (2019). [PDF of program]
• “Living with Ghosts: Being Haunted as a Structure of Experience”
  International Association for the Philosophy of Death & Dying, Uppsala, Sweden (2018). [PDF of program].
• “Co-Perception and Shared Worlds in Aristotelian Virtue Friendships”
  Collegium Phaenomenologicum. Citta di Castello, Italy (2018). [PDF of program].
• “Emotional Work in Progress: Empathy as an Interpersonal (Self-)Hermeneutic” 
  Canadian Hermeneutic Institute. York University, Toronto, Canada (2016).
• “Pain as an Intersubjective Experience”
  Canadian Hermeneutic Institute, York University, Toronto, Canada (2013).

Public Talk

Here [link] is a short video about a public talk I gave on grief and mourning, as part of a Death Cafe organized by Dr. Michael Butler (University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley).

Translation Work

• with Elena Bartolini, Translation (from Italian) of Claudia Baracchi, Friendship: The Future of an Ancient Gif, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023.
• with Ursula Goldenbaum. Translation of: Antonio Lamarra, “Genetic Context and Initial Reception of Leibniz’s Monadologie. Leibniz, Wolff and the Doctrine of Pre-established Harmony.” Leibniz Review Vol. 29 (2019), 185-200.

Languages

French – Fluent
Italian – Intermediate
Spanish – Reading competency
Ancient Greek – Beginner
German – Beginner