EDUCATION
Ph.D., Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, August, 2007
Cours de Civilisation Française de la Sorbonne, July-August, 1999
Banaras Hindu University, Banaras, India, Visiting Student, September-December, 1997
Ph.D., Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, August, 2007
- Dissertation: Before the Text: Phenomenology and Revelation
- Summa Cum Laude
- Phi Beta Kappa
Cours de Civilisation Française de la Sorbonne, July-August, 1999
Banaras Hindu University, Banaras, India, Visiting Student, September-December, 1997
ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD
Professor, MSU Denver, 2020-present
Associate Professor, MSU Denver, 2013-2020
Founding Director, The Denver Project for Humanistic Inquiry (D-phi), 2015-present
Visiting Scholar, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Fonds Ricoeur, Paris, France, April-June 2017
Visiting Researcher, Université de Strasbourg, France, January-March, 2017
University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea Program, Lecturer, Spring 2012
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, MSU Denver, 2007-2012
Fellow, Critical Writing Program, UPenn, 2006-2007
Instructor, General Studies Program, UPenn, 2005
Professor, MSU Denver, 2020-present
Associate Professor, MSU Denver, 2013-2020
Founding Director, The Denver Project for Humanistic Inquiry (D-phi), 2015-present
Visiting Scholar, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Fonds Ricoeur, Paris, France, April-June 2017
Visiting Researcher, Université de Strasbourg, France, January-March, 2017
University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea Program, Lecturer, Spring 2012
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, MSU Denver, 2007-2012
Fellow, Critical Writing Program, UPenn, 2006-2007
Instructor, General Studies Program, UPenn, 2005
PUBLICATIONS
Book:
Articles:
Reviews:
In Preparation:
Edited Works:
The Boardman Lectureship in Christian Ethics, 2002-2005
Book:
- The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion and Ricoeur. Lexington Books, 2021 (July).
Articles:
- “Kant after Freud: Ricoeur’s Ethics of Eros and Accusation” in Ricoeur, Freud and the Symbolism of Evil, eds. Geoffrey Dierckxsens, Azadeh Arjangi, and Michael Deckard. De Gruyter, (forthcoming).
- "Responsibility and the Unity of Self: Variations on a Kantian Theme in Brandom and Korsgaard" in Existenz, Volume 15, No 1, Fall 2021.
- "The Ambiguity of Flesh" in A Companion to Ricoeur's Symbolism of Evil. Scott Davidson (ed.), Lexington Books, 2020, pp. 19-36.
- "Hermeneutics, Historicism and the Concept of History" in Existenz, Volume 14, No 1, Spring 2019.
- "The Limits of Tolerance: Religion and the ‘Right to Offend'" in Democracia no século XXI (Democracy in the 21st Century) Renee Dentz (Ed.). Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Juris, 2019.
- "Narration and the Normative Theory of Freedom". Free Will & Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives In Filip Grgic, Russell Wilcox, Henrik Lagerlund, Janathan Jacobs (Ed.), (Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action ed., vol. 6, pp. 57-70). Springer, 2018.
- "'Freedom and Resentment' and Ricoeur: Toward A Normative-Narrative Theory of Agency" in A Companion to Ricoeur's Freedom and Nature. Scott Davidson (ed.), (pp. 20). Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
- “Before the Text: Ricoeur and the Theological Turn in Phenomenology” Studia Phaenomenologica, vol. XIII, 2013.
- “Revelation and Event: Ricoeur on the Uniqueness of Scripture” in Paul Ricoeur: Poetics and Religion. BETL, 240, Edited by J. Verheyden, T.L. Hettema, P. Vandecasteele. Leuven, Peeters Press, 2011, pp. 503-517.
- “Freedom, Responsibility and the Hermeneutics of Confession” in Who is Calling: Hermeneutics and Responsibility. Edited by Thomas Wentzer and Jon Nielsen, (accepted).
Reviews:
- Paul Ricoeur's Concept of Subjectivity (Malgorzata Holda, Ignatianum University Press, Cracow, 2019) in Studia Philosophiae Christianae, UKSW, 55(2019)1.
- Empathy in the Context of Philosophy (Lou Agosta, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) in Choice, January Issue, 2011.
- Ways of Knowing: Kierkegaard’s Pluralist Epistemology (M. G. Piety, Baylor University Press, 2010) in Choice, April Issue, 2011.
- Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry (Wesley J. Wildman, SUNY Press, 2010) in Choice, July Issue, 2011
In Preparation:
- Heirs of Freedom: A Hermeneutic of Agency (book manuscript)
- “God’s Awful Majesty: Ignorance, Freedom and Moral Faith in Kant” (article)
Edited Works:
The Boardman Lectureship in Christian Ethics, 2002-2005
- Staudenmaier, John. “The Greater Good” in Boardman Lecture XXXX, Philadelphia: Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2005. ScholarlyCommons@Penn. http://repository.upenn.edu/boardman/7.
- Dyson, Michael. “Religions and Terrors,” in Boardman Lecture XXXIX, Philadelphia: Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2004. ScholarlyCommons@Penn. http://repository.upenn.edu/boardman/1.
- Volf, Miroslav. “Christianity and Violence,” in Boardman Lecture XXXVIII, Philadelphia: Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2002. ScholarlyCommons@Penn. http://repository.upenn.edu/boardman/2.
PRESENTATIONS:
- "Conscience and Community," Fonds Ricoeur, Paris, France, June 23, 2023.
- Book Panel on Adam Graves's The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur, Moderated by John Arthos (Professor, Indiana University), Society for Ricoeur Studies Annual Meeting (online), October 9th, 2021.
- Keynote Lecture, "Eros, Action and Accusation: Kant after Freud (after Ricoeur)," Fonds Ricoeur/EHESS, Paris, June 2019.
- "Sense, Nonsense, and Innocence," INPR, Institut Catholique, Paris, June 2019.
- "Let's Make History: Norms, Actions and Events," Central Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Denver, CO, February 22, 2019.
- "Freedom and the Flesh: A Hermeneutics of the Will," Department Speaker Series at the University of Colorado, Denver, CO, October 10, 2018.
- "The Ambivalence of Flesh," Fonds Ricoeur, Paris, France, June 26, 2018.
- "A Ricoeurian Analysis of Identity Liberalism," Il Congresse Lusofono de Ciencia das Religioes: Historia, Momorias, Narrativas, Universidade Lusófonia, Lisbon, Spain, May 29, 2017. http://clre.ulusofona.pt/simposios-tematicos-aprovados/
- Norms, Rights and Recognition", The Hermeneutics of Hospitality, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, May 20, 2017. http://www.ignatianum.edu.pl/nauka/konferencje/ricoeur-congress-2015
- "Narration and the Normative Theory of Freedom," Agency, Causality, and Free Will Conference, The Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb and the Croatian Science Foundation, Zagreb, Croatia, January 26, 2016. http://freewill.projekti.ifzg.hr/?page_id=87
- "Speech-Acts and the Attestation of the Self in Ricoeur," The Polyphony of Text and Life: Phenomenological Hermeneutics Ten Years after the Death of Paul Ricoeur, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, and the International Institute for Hermeneutics, Krakow, Poland, May 22, 2015. http://www.ignatianum.edu.pl/nauka/konferencje/ricoeur-congress-2015
- "The Impractical Postulate: Reassessing the Place of God in Kant’s Practical Philosophy," Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, June 8, 2014.
- ""By the Hand of My Tongue": Speech-Acts and the Attestation of Self," The Ricœur Centenary Conference, Fonds Ricoeur/Sorbonne/Institut Goethe, Paris, France, November 18, 2013.
- "Freedom, Responsibility and the Hermeneutics of Confession," University of Cape Town, South Africa, March 5th, 2012.
- "'By the Hand of My Tongue": Speech-Acts and the Attestation of Self," Annual Meeting of the Society for Ricoeur Studies, Eugene, OR, October 27, 2013.
- "Ricoeur and the Phenomenology of Revelation," New Perspectives on Hermeneutics in the Social Sciences and Practical Philosophy, National Research University, Moscow, Russia, September, 2011.
- "Freedom, Responsibility and the Hermeneutics of Confession," Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, University of Denver, Denver, 2011.
- “From Debt to Destiny: Ricoeur’s Hidden Heideggerianism” Society for Ricoeur Studies Annual Conference held in conjunction with SPEP, Montréal, Canada, 2010.
- “God’s Awful Majesty: Ignorance, Freedom and Moral Faith in Kant,” invited presentation, CSU’s Philosophy Department’s Colloquium, November, 2010.
- “Freedom, Responsibility and the Hermeneutics of Confession” (plenary address), Who is Calling? Responsible Hermeneutics-Hermeneutics of Responsibility, Institute of Philosophy and History of Ideas at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, 2010.
- “Kant’s Liminal Lord: Ignorance, Freedom and Moral Faith,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Montréal, 2009.
- “Kierkegaard and the Symbolism of Sin,” Society for Ricoeur Studies Annual Conference held in conjunction with SPEP, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, 2009.
- “God’s Awful Majesty: Kant on Moral Worth and the Theoretical Unkowability of God,” Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Denver, 2009.
- “Revelation, Sacred or Profane: Ricoeur on the Uniqueness of Scripture,” International Conference: Poetics and Religion, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2008.
- “Ricoeur on Translation: Philosophy, Poetics and the Production of Equivalents,” Society for Ricoeur Studies Annual Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, 2007.
- "Kairos, Christlichkeit and (Counter)contamination in Early Heidegger,” Department of Religious Studies Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2007.
- “Between Athens and Jerusalem: Ricoeur on the Relationship between Speculative and Religious Discourses,” After Ricoeur Conference, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma, 2006.
- “At the Brink of Conscience: Rethinking the Relationship between Phenomenology and Hermeneutics in Ricoeur’s Philosophy of Religion,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Philadelphia, 2006.
- “On the (Im)possibility of a Phenomenology of Revelation: Jean-Luc Marion on the Anonymity of the Call,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, 2004.
- “Hermeneutics of the Self: An Analysis of Paul Ricoeur’s Critique of the Cogito,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences held in conjunction with the Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Memphis, 2004.
- “The Hermeneutics of Self: Textuality and the Social Sciences,” Bound/Unbound: Textuality Within and Beyond the Book, 3rd Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2003.
- Respondent, "Priority of the Good: Liberalism's Perfectionist Infrastructure," Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, Denver, CO, October 12, 2019.
- Respondent, “Ricoeur as Philosopher and as Theologian” Society for Ricoeur Studies Annual Conference held in conjunction with SPEP, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, 2009.
- Respondent, “Religion and Continental Thought: From Heidegger and Levinas to Vattimo, Badiou, and Cavell,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, 2007.
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS (selected)
- International Studies Faculty Seminar Grant (approx. $5,000), Metro State, 2010
- Office of International Studies Travel Grant ($4,00), Metro State, 2008, 2010
- Chimicles Fellowship ($20,000+tuition), UPenn, 2005-2006
- Boardman Fellowship (full stipend+tuition), UPenn, 2001-2005
- Nominated for Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, UPenn, 2004
- Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, UPenn, 2004
- School of Arts and Sciences Research Grant, UPenn, 2004
- Theta Alpha Kappa: National Honor Society for Religious Stud./Theology, 2003
- Phi Beta Kappa, 2001
- Holden Furber Prize for Best Paper on South Asian Related Topic, UPenn, 2001
- South Asian Regional Studies Summer Research Grant, UPenn (conducted research in Rajasthan, India, and Madhya Pradesh, India), 1999.
- Distinguished Philosophy Student Award, University of Minnesota, 1996-1997
- University of Minnesota Scholar Award, 1996-1997
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (selected)
- Referee, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 2011.
- Member, Submission Review Committee, Society for Ricoeur Studies Annual Conference, 2008-2017.
- Referee, Expositions: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 2007.
- Planning Committee Member, Society for Ricoeur Studies Annual Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, 2007.
- Session Organizer,“Ricoeur: Religion at the Limits of Philosophy,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Session 7, Philadelphia, 2006.
- Co-organizer, Violence and Religion, a one-day symposium sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, UPenn, 2002.
- Coordinator, Boardman Lecture Series in Christian Ethics, 2001-2005
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (selected)
- Founding Director of the Denver Project for Humanistic Inquiry, 2015-present
- Director of Majors, 2009-2010.
- Faculty Search Committee, 2010
- Faculty Senator, 2009-2010
- Participant, Program Peer-Assessment, 2009
- Dept. Representative, Metro State Open House, 2007-2010
- Faculty Search Committee Member, 2007-2008
- Dept. Representative, Majors Fair, 2007-2010
- Participant, Writing Curriculum Pilot Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2005-2006.
READING KNOWLEDGE:
- French
- German
- Sanskrit
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP (selected)
- International Network in Philosophy of Religion
- Society for Ricoeur Studies
- International Network in Philosophy of Religion
- American Academy of Religion
- American Philosophical Association
- Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
- Oriental Club of Philadelphia (elected member, 2001)