Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Doctor of Liberal Studies – Georgetown University (2011)Completed all course work Magna Cum Laude, Dissertation defended with distinction
Master of Modern Studies – Loyola College (2003)Graduated Summa Cum Laude
Bachelor of Science (Philosophy & Literature) – Towson State University (1997)Graduated Cum Laude from Honors College
Master of Modern Studies – Loyola College (2003)Graduated Summa Cum Laude
Bachelor of Science (Philosophy & Literature) – Towson State University (1997)Graduated Cum Laude from Honors College
PUBLICATIONS AND
PRESENTATIONS
PUBLICATIONS AND
PRESENTATIONS
BooksFinite Transcendence: Existential Exile and the Myth of Home – Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014.
EssaysIn Dialogue with Art: The Phillips Collection as Interpretive Paradise.” Foreword to Pamela Carter-Birkin, Duncan and Marjorie Phillips and America’s First Museum of Modern Art. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2021.“Review of Common: On Revolution in the 21st Century.” Confluence XXV, no. 2 (2019): 197–204. [Book review]"Transcending the Paradox of Violence: A Dialectical/Dialogical Interrogation of the Colonial–Anti-Colonial Struggle in Algeria." Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 101, no. 4 (2018): 322-40.“Reading, Violence, Solidarity.” Zeteo. December 5, 2016.“Names & Naming: Identity, Self-Determination, Power.” Zeteo. August 30, 2016.
Editorials“The Value of Not Knowing.” Confluence XXIX, no. 2 (2023): 85–88.“Lonely Work.” Confluence XXIX, no. 1 (2023): 1–6.“Welcome Home.” Confluence XXVIII, no. 2 (2022): 96–100.“Dialogue Revisited.” Confluence XXVIII, no. 1 (2022): 1–4.“What Is College For?” Confluence XXVII, no. 2 (2021): 105–114.“Variations on a Theme of Memory.” Confluence XXVII, no. 1 (2021): 1–6.“What’s in a Name? Identity Determination as Power.” Confluence XXVI, no. 2 (2020): 107–114.“On Plague.” Confluence XXVI, no. 1 (2020): 1–12.“What Does ‘The Commons’ Mean?” Confluence XXV, no. 2 (2019): 101–106.“‘So What?’: Finding the Existential Purpose of Liberal Education.” Confluence XXV, no. 1 (2019): 1–7.“‘Unnatural Borders’: Belonging as Human Need and Contemporary Challenge.” Confluence XXIV, no. 1 (2018): 1–6.“Know Thyself: Addressing the Crisis of Liberal Studies.” Confluence XIII, no. 1 (2017): 1–4.“Not as Truth, but as Dialogue.” Confluence XII, no. 1 (2016): 1–4.
Presentations“The 21st Century Labyrinth: Humanities Degrees and Publishing Careers.” Panel presentation and discussion sponsored by the San Diego State University MALAS Program, SDSU Press, and AGLSP, March 21, 2022. (with Donna Seaman and William Nericcio)“Transitions and Transformations in the Halls of Academe and the Streets of Baltimore.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, Oklahoma City, OK, October 2016. (with Randall Donaldson)“At Home in Exile” – Paper presented at the East Coast Graduate Liberal Studies [ECGLS] Conference, June 2014“Myth and Theory as ‘Practicing Death’” – Paper presented for The Georgetown Conversation, December 2012 “The First Man: Albert Camus’ Myth of Exile” – Paper presented at the ECGLS Conference, June 2011
EssaysIn Dialogue with Art: The Phillips Collection as Interpretive Paradise.” Foreword to Pamela Carter-Birkin, Duncan and Marjorie Phillips and America’s First Museum of Modern Art. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2021.“Review of Common: On Revolution in the 21st Century.” Confluence XXV, no. 2 (2019): 197–204. [Book review]"Transcending the Paradox of Violence: A Dialectical/Dialogical Interrogation of the Colonial–Anti-Colonial Struggle in Algeria." Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 101, no. 4 (2018): 322-40.“Reading, Violence, Solidarity.” Zeteo. December 5, 2016.“Names & Naming: Identity, Self-Determination, Power.” Zeteo. August 30, 2016.
Editorials“The Value of Not Knowing.” Confluence XXIX, no. 2 (2023): 85–88.“Lonely Work.” Confluence XXIX, no. 1 (2023): 1–6.“Welcome Home.” Confluence XXVIII, no. 2 (2022): 96–100.“Dialogue Revisited.” Confluence XXVIII, no. 1 (2022): 1–4.“What Is College For?” Confluence XXVII, no. 2 (2021): 105–114.“Variations on a Theme of Memory.” Confluence XXVII, no. 1 (2021): 1–6.“What’s in a Name? Identity Determination as Power.” Confluence XXVI, no. 2 (2020): 107–114.“On Plague.” Confluence XXVI, no. 1 (2020): 1–12.“What Does ‘The Commons’ Mean?” Confluence XXV, no. 2 (2019): 101–106.“‘So What?’: Finding the Existential Purpose of Liberal Education.” Confluence XXV, no. 1 (2019): 1–7.“‘Unnatural Borders’: Belonging as Human Need and Contemporary Challenge.” Confluence XXIV, no. 1 (2018): 1–6.“Know Thyself: Addressing the Crisis of Liberal Studies.” Confluence XIII, no. 1 (2017): 1–4.“Not as Truth, but as Dialogue.” Confluence XII, no. 1 (2016): 1–4.
Presentations“The 21st Century Labyrinth: Humanities Degrees and Publishing Careers.” Panel presentation and discussion sponsored by the San Diego State University MALAS Program, SDSU Press, and AGLSP, March 21, 2022. (with Donna Seaman and William Nericcio)“Transitions and Transformations in the Halls of Academe and the Streets of Baltimore.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, Oklahoma City, OK, October 2016. (with Randall Donaldson)“At Home in Exile” – Paper presented at the East Coast Graduate Liberal Studies [ECGLS] Conference, June 2014“Myth and Theory as ‘Practicing Death’” – Paper presented for The Georgetown Conversation, December 2012 “The First Man: Albert Camus’ Myth of Exile” – Paper presented at the ECGLS Conference, June 2011
COURSES
DESIGNED/TAUGHT
COURSES
DESIGNED/TAUGHT
Self and World: Fundamental Issues in Human ExistenceAdvanced Research Methods and Capstone PreparationPracticing DeathPhilosophy of Faith: The Situation and Significance of BeliefThe Absurd in Life and LiteratureThe Existential ImaginationThe American EthosFirst-Year CompositionThe Problem of GodThe Wrong Side and the Right Side: The Human Condition through the Eyes of Camus and Sartre