Ryan Johnson
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy
Department: Philosophy
Email: rjohnson50@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 278-5533
Brief Biography
"Most people imagine that philosophy consisted in delivering discourses from the heights of a chair, and in giving classes based on texts. But what these people utterly miss is the uninterrupted philosophy which we see being practiced every day in a way which is perfectly equal to itself…Socrates did not set up grandstands for his audience and did not sit upon a professorial chair; he had no fixed timetable for talking or walking with his friends. Rather, he did philosophy sometimes by joking with them, or by drinking or going to war or to the market with them, and finally by going to prison and drinking poison. He was the first to show that at all times and in every place, in everything that happens to us, daily life gives us the opportunity to do philosophy." (Plutarch, Whether a man should engage in politics when he is old, 26)
The mark of a good teacher: the ability to give a greater sense of possibility to another person.
Links
- Blog post for Edinburgh University Press (opens a new window)
- Academia.edu page (opens a new window)
- My co-edited special issue on teaching philosophy as a way of life (opens a new window)
- Interview on Examining Ethics podcast (opens a new window)
- Interview on New Books Network (opens a new window)
- Hotel Bar Sesssions Interview (opens a new window)
- “Why Philosophy? Ryan Johnson: Philosophy as a Collaborative Practice,” (opens a new window)
- mbodied Teaching and nontraditional spaces (opens a new window)
News & Notes
Education
Ph.D, Philosophy, Duquesne University, 2014
M.A., Philosophy, Kent State University, 2008
B.A., Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, Kent State University, 2006
Employment History
Associate Professor and Chair, Elon University, 2021-present
Visiting Professor, University of Toronto-St. George, 2021-2022
Assistant Professor, Elon University, 2015-2021
Visiting Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2014-2015
Courses Taught
2021
“Roman Philosophies”
“Modern Philosophy”
“COR110: Global Experience (Afropessimism)” two sections
2020
“Ancient Philosophy”
“Modern Philosophy”
“How Should We Live?” two sections
2019
“Roman Philosophies”
“Modern Philosophy”
“Food, Power, Identity”
“COR110: Global Experience (Antiracism)” two sections
“Senior Seminar: Brokmeyer’s translation of Hegel’s Wissenschaft der Logik”
2018
“Roman Philosophies”
“Ancient Philosophy” two sections
“How Should We Live?: Existentialism Edition” two sections
“Senior Seminar: Hegel and Black Thought”
2017
“Modern Philosophy”
“COR110: Global Experience (Liberty and Servitude)”
“Refusing to Wait: Intellectual and Practical Resources in Troubling Times”
2016
“Senior Seminar: Gastrosophia or A Philosophy of Food”
“Ancient Philosophy”
“Roman Philosophies”
Current Projects
Deleuze & Guattari & Blackness, eds. Norman Ajari and Ryan J. Johnson, projected 2025
The John Brown Suite (book project; a philosophical account of the radical abolitionist John Brown, 1800-1859)
A Love Spinoza (book project; an engagement of Spinoza through Black thinkers, Black history, and jazz)
Ongoing pedagogical experient in teaching almost exclusively outdoors, including a series of planned articles in the Scholarship of Teaching of Learning and an upcoming keynote speech at the 4th annual conference of Philosophy in the Wild, ‘The Philosophical Environment’ (Colton Point State Park, July 26-28, 2024)
Toni Morrison's Beloved and Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
Kafka and Afrosurrealism
Grants Awarded
John William Miller Society Fellowship, 2021-2022
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2021
Sustainability Scholar, Elon University, 2020-2021
Archie K. Davis Fellowship, North Caroliniana Society, Summer 2020
Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, Elon University, June-July 2020
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/ German Academic Exchange Service Summer Grant, “Learn German in Germany” at Mannheim Goethe-Institut, Germany: July 2019
Summer Writing Grant, “Teaching Through Parallel Writing Senior Seminar in Philosophy,” Center for Writing Excellent, Elon University, Summer 2018
Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, Elon University, June-July 2017
Teaching and Learning Grant, A Final Philosophical Meal, Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at Elon University, 2016
Teaching and Learning Grant, The Practice of Eating: Cooking in Groups, Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at Elon University, 2015
Publications
Books
4. Three American Hegels, Rowman & Littlefield, 2024
3. Phenomenology of Black Spirit (with Biko Mandela Gray), Edinburgh University Press, 2022
2. Deleuze, A Stoic, Edinburgh University Press, 2020 (paperback 2022)
1. The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter, Edinburgh University Press, 2017 (paperback 2018)
Edited Books
5. Émile Bréhier's The Theory of Incrporeals in Ancient Stoicism, eds. and trans. by Jared C. Bly and Ryan J. Johnson, Edinburgh University Press, 2025
4. Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice, eds. Abraham Jacob Greenstine, Ryan J. Johnson, Dave Mesing, Edinburgh University Press, 2024
3. Nietzsche and Epicurus: Nature, Health and Ethics, eds. Vinod Acharya and Ryan J. Johnson, Bloomsbury Press, 2020 (paperback 2021)
2. Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics, eds. Abraham Jacob Greenstine and Ryan J. Johnson, Edinburgh University Press, 2017 (paperback 2018)
1. The Movement of Nothingness: Trust in the Emptiness of Time, eds. Daniel M. Price and Ryan J. Johnson, Davies Group Publishers, 2012
Book Chapters
9. “Hegel, Antigone, and the Lynching of Emmett Till,” in Reading Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought, eds. Christian Lotz and Antonio Calcagno, Lexington Books, 2023 (Invited)
8. “The Problem and the Blemish: Hegel and Yancy,” (with Biko Mandela Gray), Essays in Honor of George Yancy, Lexington Books, 2022 (Invited)
7. “A Memorandum for the Past Millennia: Deleuze and Wolfson Rewrite the End of De rerum natura,” in Toward a Minor Ethics: Deleuzian Variations, eds. Casey Ford, Karen Houle, and Suzanne McCullagh, McGill-Queen’s University Press, April 2021 (Invited)
6. “The Gastrosophists: Thinking and Eating with Epicurus and Nietzsche,” Nietzsche and Epicurus: Nature, Health and Ethics, eds. Vinod Acharya and Ryan J. Johnson, Bloomsbury Press, April 2020
5. “Introduction,” Nietzsche and Epicurus: Nature, Health and Ethics, eds. Vinod Acharya and Ryan J. Johnson, Bloomsbury Press, April 2020
4. “On the Surface: The Deleuze-Stoicism Encounter,” in Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics. eds. Abraham Jacob Greenstine and Ryan J. Johnson, Edinburgh University Press, 2017
3. “A Thousand Antiquities,” (with Abraham Jacob Greenstine) in Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics. eds. Abraham Jacob Greenstine and Ryan J. Johnson, Edinburgh University Press, 2017
2. “Shadowplay in Nietzschean Optics,” in The Movement of Nothingness: Trust in the Emptiness of Time. eds. Daniel Price and Ryan Johnson, Davies Group Publishers, 2012
1. “Introduction to the Movement of Nothingness,” (with Daniel M. Price) in The Movement of Nothingness: Trust in the Emptiness of Time. eds. Daniel M. Price and Ryan J. Johnson, Davies Group Publishers, 2012
Peer-Reviewed Articles
21. “The Cave of Whiteness: Du Bois, Baldwin, and Wright Recast Plato’s Allegory,” Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3, Spring 2024
20. “Fugitivity and Nothingness in and out of Hegel’s Phenomenology” (with Biko Mandela Gray), The Philosopher, Vol. 112, No.1 (Spring 2024), 78-83
19. “Annotated Bibliography” (with Jane Drexler) for “Philosophy as a Way of Life,” American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Studies in Pedagogy, Volume 6 (2021), 221-234
18. “Introduction” (with Jane Drexler) to “Philosophy as a Way of Life,” American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Studies in Pedagogy, Volume 6 (2021), 1-8
17. “Notes of a Wayward Son: Hegel, Baldwin, and Antiracist Idealism,” (with Nathan Jones) Idealistic Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, Special Edition: “‘Philosophical Idealism as Anti-Racism’ on the Occasion of Hegel's 250th Anniversary,” Vol. 51: Issue 2, Summer 2021
16. “The Cartesian Eye-without-Organs: the Shaping of Subjectivity in Cartesian Optics,” The Journal of Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 51, No. 1, 2018
15. “Homesickness and Nomadism: Traveling with Kant and Maimon,” Polish Journal of Philosophy, Vol. X, No. 2, Fall 2017
14. “Empty Souls: Confession and Forgiveness in Hegel and Dostoevsky,” Sophia and Philosophy: Essays and Explorations, Vol. 1, Issue. 1, 2016
13. “When Darkness Falls: Vision, Thought, and Contradiction in Hegel’s Science of Logic [Quando a Escuridão Aparece: Visão, Pensamento e Contradição na Ciência da Lógica de Hegel],” Revista Opinião Filosófica “Leituras da Lógica de Hegel,” Vol. 6, No. 2 (pp. 123-48), 2016
12. “Back to Metaphysics in Spinoza’s Ethics: Spinoza’s Theory of Reading,” Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 27: ‘Philosophising in the Proper Order: Spinoza and Systematic Metaphysics,’ (pp. 23-56), 2015
11. “Kantian Excentricities,” Evental Aesthetics, “Vital Materialism” Vol. 4 No. 2, 2015
10. “Machinery, Monstrosity, and Bestiality: An Analysis of Repulsion in Kierkegaard’s Practice in Christianity,” The Heythrop Journal, Vol. 55, Issue 5, 903-915: September 2014
9. “Another Use of the Concept of the Simulacrum: Deleuze, Lucretius, and the Practical Critique of De-Mystification,” Deleuze Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1: February 2014
8. “Silence and Miscommunication: Kierkegaardian Indirect Discourse and Hamlet’s Errant Ship,” Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, No. 3-4, December 2013 (Jubilee issue on the 200th celebration anniversary of Søren Kierkegaard’s birth)
7. “Kierkegaard and the Dialectic of Demonic Despair,” The Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 9, No. 3: Fall 2012
6. “An Accord in/on Kantian Aesthetics (or the Sensus Communis: Attunement in Diverse Sites of Purposiveness),” Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 5, No. 1: June 2011
5. “Locating the Abject in the Third Critique,” Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts, Vol. XII, No. 2, 2011
4. “Zips: Experimental Lines of Flight,” American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-Journal, Vol. II, No. 1: Fall/Winter 2010
3. “Locating the Abject in the Third Critique,” Southwest Philosophical Studies, Vol. 32, Spring 2010
2. “The Compound Gallery of Desire,” Rhizomes 17: Winter 2008
1. “Three Interpretations of Hermeneutics,” Existentia Studia Philosophorum: An International Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XVII: 2007
Presentations
Invited Talks
13. “Where Does Philosophy Happen?” Keynote talk at the 4th-annual Philosophy in the Wild: Experimental Workshops on Environmental Philosophy, “The Philosophical Environment,” Colton Point State Park, PA: July 26-28, 2024
12. Book launch (with Biko Mandela Gray) of our co-written Phenomenology of Black Spirit, in conversation with Stephen Ferguson, Reynolds Lecture, Elon University: October 27, 2022
11. “Teaching Philosophy as a Way of Life,” Talking Teaching Returns Series, American Association of Philosophy Teachers, October 18, 2021
10. “Preparing Practice, Sequel to Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics (EUP, 2017),” Duquesne Philosophy Reunion Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA: October 30, 2019
9. “Deleuze & the History of French Philosophy,” French Department at Elon University, NC: September 12, 2019
8. “Co-writing Phenomenology of Black Spirit,” at the African and African-American Studies at Elon “Scholar of the Month luncheon,” Elon, NC: May 17, 2019
7. “Naturalism without Nature: Lucretius and Deleuze,” for the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at the American Philosophical Association-Pacific Division, San Diego, CA: March 28-April 1, 2018
6. “De rerum natura, Book VI,” Two Invited Lectures in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University, PA: September 29, 2017
5. “Embodied Knowledges: How can we re-think the Humanities from the perspective of the body, and embodiment, in dialog with the Sciences?” Panel in the Humanities Writ Large Faculty Fellows Conference at Duke University, NC: March 23-24, 2017
4. “A Memorandum for the Past Millennia: Deleuze and Wolfson Rewrite the End of De rerum natura,” Contributors Workshop for Toward a Minor Ethics: Deleuzian Variations, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada: May 28-29, 2016
3. “The Importance of the Philosophers’ Beard,” Hale Ethics Series, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY: March 31, 2016
2. “Why ‘Repetition’ in Difference and Repetition: A Reading of the Eight Postulates of the Dogmatic Image of Thought,” Guest Lecture for Daniel Selcer’s Graduate Seminar on Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, Duquesne University, PA: March 10, 2015
1. “The Movement of Meaning; or, what it means to read Spinoza, for Spinoza,” SUNY-Geneseo Philosophy Speaker Series, SUNY-Geneseo, NY: November 7, 2014
Conference Presentations
54. “The John Brown Suite,” Philosophia: Feminist Making, Doing, & Sensing, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada/Treaty 7 Territory: March 14-17, 2024
53. Book panel on Phenomenology of Black Spirit, SPEP 61st Annual Conference, with comments from Elaine Miller and Mukasa Mubirumusoke, Toronto Metropolitan University: October 12-14, 2023,
52. “The John Brown Suite,” North Carolina Philosophical Society, Duke University: March 3-4, 2023
51. “The Logic of Accomplicity: John Brown, Hegel, and Revolution,” the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy panel at the American Philosophical Association Central Division, Denver, CO: February 22-25, 2023
50. Book launch and Discussion (with Biko Mandela Gray) of our co-written Phenomenology of Black Spirit, in conversation with Rebecca Comay and Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto: December 16, 2022
49. "Two Burials: Hegel, Antigone, and the Lynching of Emmett Till," SPEP panel on Black Hegelianism (with Kimberly Ann Harris and Elvira Basevich), Texas A&M, October 2022
48. “Eternal Recurrence and A History of Racism,” Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference, 3rd Edition: “Continental Philosophy and Its Histories, 25-27 March 2021
47. “Eternal Recurrence and A History of Racism,” Critical History of Philosophy Workshop: February 27, 2021
46. “Rage of a Phoenix Class: Problems of Representation and Integration at Elon” (with Dani Toma Harrold and Nadine Jose), 2020 Elon University Intersect: Diversity and Leadership Conference, Elon, NC: October 7, 2020
45. “Cultivating Anti-Racism and Racial Competency in a Global Experience Class” (with Dani Toma Harrold and Nadine Jose), 2020 Elon Black Solidarity Conference: (re)Envision: Blackness in 20/20, Elon, NC: February 7-8, 2020
44. “Hegel’s Master-Slave and Douglass’ Fight with Covey,” SPEP 58th Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA: October 31-November 2, 2019
43. “Living Encounters: Existential Theory and the Ways of Life” Panel (with Céline LeBeouf and Michael Sigrist) at the Diverse Lineages of Existentialism II, George Washington University, Washington D.C.: June 3-5, 2019
42. “Workshop on Practice: Contemporary Encounters to Ancient Politics and Ethics, a Sequel to Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics” (with Dave Mesing and Abraham Jacob Greenstine), at the Pennsylvania Circle of Ancient Philosophy Annual Conference, Villanova University, March 22-24, 2019
41. “Hegel and Frederick Douglass,” North Carolina Philosophical Society, UNC-Greensboro, March 8-9, 2019
40. “Teaching the Apology: A Way-of-Life Approach,” American Association of Philosophy Teachers “Teaching Hub” at the American Philosophical Association-Pacific Division, Denver, CO: February 20-23, 2019
39. “Eating as Philosophy,” American Association of Philosophy Teachers Twenty-Second Biennial AAPT International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy, UNC-Greensboro, July e25-29, 2018
38. “Epistolary Philosophy: Descartes Edition,” American Association of Philosophy Teachers “Teaching Hub” at the American Philosophical Association-Pacific Division, San Diego, CA: March 28-April 1, 2018
37. “A Philosophical Meal,” The Meaning of Food: Interdisciplinary Conference on Representations of Food in the Arts and Humanities, Greensboro, NC: March 26-28, 2018
36. “The Stoic Deus Sive Natura or Eating God,” Once More with Feeling: Affect and the God of the Philosophers, The University of Dayton, Dayton, OH: February 24-25, 2018
35. “Stoic Sense of Deleuze,” Deleuze Circle panel at SPEP 56th Annual Conference, Memphis, TN: October 19-21, 2017
34. “Call your Representatives: An Exercise to Catalyze Student Civic Participation,” 14th Annual Teaching & Learning Conference, Elon University, NC: August 17, 2017
33. “A Deleuzian Oddity of Stoic Ontology,” North Carolina Philosophical Society, UNC-Wilmington, NC: February 24-25, 2017 (Non-tenured Faculty Essay Prize Winner)
32. Invited Discussant for Jordan Jochim’s “The Ethoi of Tyranny,” Graduate Conference in Political Theory, Duke University, NC: February 23-24, 2017
31. “Deleuze and Macherey Read Spinoza,” Villanova Annual Philosophy Conference: New Encounters in French and Italian Thought, Villanova University, PA: March 13-14, 2015
30. “Diagramming Political Subjectivation in Thomas Paine's Common Sense,” Thinking through Deleuze: Nomadic Subjects, Global Citizenship, and Posthumanism, Brock University, St. Catherines, ON, Canada: February 6-8, 2015
29. “The Dark Regions of a Textual Lacuna,” The Pennsylvania Circle of Ancient Philosophy Inaugural Conference, Duquesne University, PA: February 16-17, 2013
28. “Atomic Deleuze,” Duquesne Graduate Students in Philosophy Colloquium Series, Duquesne University, PA: December 5, 2012
27. “The Shaping of Subjectivity in Cartesian Optics,” The Second Annual Pittsburgh Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, PA: November 17, 2012
26. “The Cartesian Eye-without-Organs,” SPEP 51st Annual Conference, Rochester, NY: November 1-3, 2012
25. “Sailing and Mailing: Indirect Communication in Hamlet and Kierkegaard,” American Society for Aesthetics: Eastern Division, Philadelphia, PA: April 20-21, 2012 (Response from Dr. Kathleen Higgins of the University of Texas, Austin)
24. “Story of the Eye According to Descartes,” Duquesne Graduate Students in Philosophy Colloquium Series, Duquesne University, PA: January 27, 2012
23. “Demons, Dialectic, and Despair in Dante and Kierkegaard,” The First Annual Pittsburgh Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, PA: November 10-11, 2011
22. “Kantian Excentricities (Ausmitte),” Pittsburgh Area Philosophy Colloquium, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA: September 10, 2011
21. “The Question and the Quest: Kierkegaardian Indirect Discourse in Hamlet’s Errant Ship,” College English Association of Ohio, Ohio University, Athens: April, 15, 2011
20. “Nietzschean Shadowplay,” Duquesne Graduate Students in Philosophy Colloquium Series, Duquesne University, PA: November 12, 2010
19. “An Accord in/on Kantian Aesthetics (or the Sensus Communis: Attunement in Diverse Sites of Purposiveness),” The Society for Student Philosophers Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Austin: April 9-11, 2010
18. “An Accord in/on Kantian Aesthetics (or the Sensus Communis: Attunement in Diverse Sites of Purposiveness),” Southern study group of the North American Kant Society, The University of Texas A & M: April 5-6, 2010
17. “Dynamic Harmonies: An Inconstruction of Kantian Aesthetics,” The 3rd Annual LSU ‘Mardi Gras’ Philosophy Conference, Louisiana State University: February 19-20, 2010
16. “Zips: Experimental Lines of Flight,” SPEP 48th Annual Conference, George Mason University, Arlington, VA: October 29-31, 2009
15. “A Diagram for a New Order of Things,” Shifting Spatialities: The Dynamic Boundaries of Place and Space, Rice University, Houston, TX: October 2-3, 2009
14. “Foucault and Cartography,” The University of New Mexico’s 7th Annual Philosophy Conference: Thinking about Traditions, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM: April 25, 2009
13. “Locating the Abject in the Third Critique,” 2nd Annual LSU Philosophy Conference, Louisiana State University: April 18-19, 2009
12. “The Compound Gallery of Desire,” Body and Physical Difference Area of the Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, LA” April 8 -11, 2009
11. “Locating the Abject in the Third Critique,” The New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Association, Houston Community College-NW, TX: March 27-30, 2009
10. “Locating the Abject in the Third Critique,” The Society for Student Philosophers Annual Conference, The University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX: March 27-29, 2009
9. Response to Clancy Smith’s “War and Human Nature: Applying John Dewey's Theories of Habit Formation to Issues of War and Peace",” The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Texas A & M University: March 2-24, 2009
8. “An Introduction to Diagrammatics,” The World Historical Association of Texas, “Causes Connections, and Consequences: Globalization Past and Present,” St. Edward’s University, Austin TX: February 21-22, 2009
7. “Zips: Experimental Lines of Flight,” The Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts-Central (SPSCVA) held in conjunction with the divisional meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL: February 18-22, 2009
6. “Violence and Desire: Performance and Movements,” Latin American Graduate Student Association (LAGO) and the Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Association, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA: November 14-15, 2008
5. “An Introduction to Diagrammatics,” The North Texas Philosophical Association, The University of North Texas, Denton, TX: April 11-12, 2008
4. “The Compound Gallery of Desire,” CROW Gender Symposium, Akron University, OH: April 4-5, 2008
3. “The Compound Gallery of Desire,” Battleground States 2008: The Body and Culture, Culture Club: The Cultural Studies Scholar’s Association, Bowling Green State University, OH: February 22-23, 2008
2. “Deleuze, De Landa, and a New Philosophy of Science,” The Topos Lecture Series, Kent State University Graduate/Undergraduate Philosophy Club, Kent State University, OH: February 8, 2008
1. “The Compound Gallery of Desire,” West Chester University Philosophy Conference, West Chester University, PA: November 2007
Professional Activities
Reviving Philosophy as a Way of Life, Participant, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, July 9-21, 2018
Once More, With Feeling: Affect and the God of the Philosophers, Co-Organizers: Dr. Dustin Atlas and Dr. Ryan J. Johnson, The University of Dayton, OH: March 2-3, 2018
Philosophy without Teachers: A Residency (total: $12,000), grants from the Phi Kappa “Fund for the Excellence in the Arts and Sciences” at Elon University ($3,000), grant from the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at Elon University ($4,000), from the Provost for Faculty Affairs at Elon University ($4,000), and from the Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics at Case Western Reserve University ($1,000)
Service Activities
Service to the Profession
Invited and Funded Participant, Stoicism and German Philosophy: from Dilthey to Sloterdijk, University of Miami, FL: August 18-20, 2016
Moderator for Anthony J. Steinbock’s “The Experience of Vocation and Personal Identity,” SPEP 55th Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT: October 20-22, 2016
Moderator for “Reading Meillassoux” Panel, SPEP 54th Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA: October 8-10, 2015
Co-Coordinator, Colloquium for the Duquesne Graduate Students in Philosophy Association, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA: 2010-2011
President, Rice University Graduate History of Philosophy Club, TX: 2008-2010
Student Organizer, Kent State May 4th Graduate Conference: 2008. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Hubert Dreyfus
Vice President, Graduate-Undergraduate Philosophy Club, Kent State University, OH: 2007-2008
President, Philosophy Graduate Student Association, Kent State University, OH: 2007-2008
Student Organizer, Kent State May 4th Graduate Conference: 2007. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Charles Scott
Founder and President, Topos Philosophy Lecture Series, an interdisciplinary lecture series sponsored by the Kent State Undergraduate/Graduate Philosophy Club: 2006-2008
President, Graduate Philosophy Club, Kent State University: 2006-2007
Professional Memberships
American Philosophical Association
American Society for Aesthetics
North American Kant Society
New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Society
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Manuscript/Article Reviewing and Content Editing
Hegel Bulletin, 2022-present
Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2021-present
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 2020-present
Oxford University Press, 2020-present
Cogent Humanities, 2019-present
Edinburgh University Press, 2018-present
Palgrave-MacMillan, 2016-present
American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-Journal, ASAGE, 2008-2014
New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Association 2008-2013
Content editor for Reading Romans with Contemporary Philosophers and Theologians, David Odell-Scott (Ed.), Maiden Lane, NY: T and T Clark International Press, 2007
Personal Information
Language Proficiency
French, reading proficiency, intermediate listening, basic speaking
German, intermediate reading, basic speaking and listening
Latin, basic reading
Professional Development
Professional Events & Research
Library of Congress, archival research of William Torrey Harris Papers, Washington D.C., December 26, 2019
The Miller Papers, funded archival research of John William Miller Papers at Williams College, October 10-12, 2019
Missouri Historical Society, funded weeklong archival research on Henry C. Brokmeyer’s translation of G.W.F. Hegel’s Science of Logic in William Torrey Harris Papers, St. Louis, MO: May 20-24, 2019
Reviving Philosophy as a Way of Life, Participant, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, July 9-21, 2018
Once More, With Feeling: Affect and the God of the Philosophers, Co-organizers: Dr. Dustin Atlas and Dr. Ryan J. Johnson, at The University of Dayton, OH: March 2-3, 2018
The Miller Papers, funded archival research of John William Miller Papers at Williams College, November 9-11, 2016
Philosophy without Teachers: A Residency (total: $12,000), grants from the Phi Kappa “Fund for the Excellence in the Arts and Sciences” at Elon University ($3,000), grant from the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at Elon University ($4,000), from the Provost for Faculty Affairs at Elon University ($4,000), and from the Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics at Case Western Reserve University ($1,000), Greensboro, NC, June 5-11, 2016
Awards
Elon College of Arts and Science’s Excellence in Scholarship Award, Elon University, 2020
Untenured Faculty Essay Prize Winner for “A Deleuzian Oddity of Stoic Ontology,” North Carolina Philosophical Society, UNC-Wilmington, NC: February 24-25, 2017
University Teaching Council’s Faculty Recognition Award, Kent State University, 2014
Charles Dougherty Graduate Philosophy Student Teaching Award, nominee, Duquesne University, 2012-2013
McAnulty Graduate Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Duquesne University: 2012-2013
Mathesis Grant for Intensive Language Study, Stuttgart, Germany: 2012
Duquesne University Graduate Student Stipend: 2009-2013
McAnulty College Graduate Scholarship, Duquesne University: 2009-2013
Kent State University Graduate Student Stipend: 2006-2008
College of Arts and Science Graduate Scholarship, Kent State University: 2006-2008
Alpha Lamda Delta Freshman Honors Society, 2001-2002