I work primarily in ethics and phenomenology, with a sustained focus on how ethical life is lived and felt (rather than merely theorized) and on how that experience becomes articulable—especially through concepts such as testimony, contingency, and normativity. These concerns have led me to extensive research on the philosophies of Emmanuel Levinas and Knud E. Løgstrup. In recent years, I have also worked in the phenomenology of art, with particular attention to the ontology of the artwork. Alongside these areas of specialization, I regularly teach courses in environmental ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of sex and gender, and I engage broadly with contemporary continental traditions, including current debates in phenomenology and the “new realisms.” Finally, I engage in ongoing literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytic translation, working to and from English, French, and Spanish.

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