Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Selected Talks
Spring 2026
Job Talk: "Angela Y. Davis & the 'Orbit of Legality': Critical Reflections on the Role of the State."
Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Geneva, NY. April.
Fall 2025
"The Epistemic Violence of the Slave Narrative Genre: Angela Y. Davis, Hortense Spillers, and a Gendered Critique of a Uniquely American Literary Genre."
The National Women's Studies Association (NWSA). San Juan, Puerto Rico. November
Fall 2025
"It is a Critique? On the Notion of Existential Freedom with Angela Y. Davis, Herbert Marcuse, and Jean-Paul Sartre."
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP). Zoom. October
Fall 2025
"Sartre and Fanon on Maintaining the Colonial System: the 'Categorical Imperative' Amongst Colonialists."
The North American Sartre Society (NASS). Zoom. September
Spring 2025
"On the Dialectical Relationship between Theory and Praxis: Engagements between Angela Y. Davis and the Frankfurt School."
Republic of Letters: The Scholar and Scholarly Communities from Petrarch to the Present. Graduate Students Conference, Johns Hopkins University. April.
Summer 2024
"Suppressing Epistemologies and Affectivities: An Ethical Question."
Caribbean Philosophy Association: Shifting the Geography of Reason XXII: Decolonizing Epistemologies. University of Memphis. June.
Spring 2024
"Arrival and Departure: Fanon, Borders, and Fracturing Systems of Reference."
Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP) and Society of Phenomenology and the Human Science (SPHS): Phenomenology at the Borders. Duquesne Unviersity. May.
Spring 2024
"Angela Davis and 'The Orbit of Legality': Conscious Reflections on the Role of the State."
Graduate Students in Philosophy: Being and Crime, Duquesne University (Zoom). April.
Summer 2022
'"Theorizing the Subjectivity of the Colonized and Colonizing Child Figures with Merleau-Ponty and Fanon.
ICNAP XIII: Corpus Crisis, Duquesne University (Zoom). June.
Spring 2022
"Challenging the Reversal of the Dialectic: Davis on Douglass."
Critical Philosophy of Race After Ten Years, Penn State University. March.
Summer 2020
"On Paulette Nardal's 'The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students."
Cultivating Underrepresented Students in Philosophy (CUSP) Program, Penn State University. June.