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Education

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  • PhD, Western University, Theory and Criticism, (anticipated) 2021. 

Sense and Genesis: The Metaphysics of Modernism and the Aesthetics of Reason in Wittgenstein and Beyond. Supervisors: Kevin Mooney and John Vanderheide.

  • Certificate, Cornell University, School of Criticism and Theory, 2019.

  • MA, Western University, Theory and Criticism, 2014.

Deleuze Through Wittgenstein: Essays in Transcendental Empiricism. Supervisor: Daniel Vaillancourt.

  • BFA, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Drawing and Painting, 2010.

 

Honours and Awards

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  • Nominee, Graduate Student Teaching Award, Western University, 2018-2019.

  • CSTC Sponsorship, Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, 2019.

  • Nominee, Graduate Student Teaching Award, Western University, 2016-2017.

  • Western University Graduate Research Scholarship, 2016-2020.

  • Western University Graduate Research Scholarship, 2012-2014.

  • Entrance Scholarship, Western University, 2016-2017.

  • Honour Roll Scholarship, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2007-2008.

 

Publications

 

Academic Journals

  • “The Metaphysical Subject and Logical Space: Solipsism and Singularity in the Tractatus,” Open Philosophy (2018). Special Issue. The New Metaphysics: Analytic/Continental Crossovers. Eds. Jon Cogburn, Paul Livingston. De Gruyter, 277-289.

  • Co-authored with Dylan Vaughan, “Review of Arjen Kleinherenbrink’s Against Continuity: Deleuze’s Speculative Realism” Deleuze and Guattari Studies 15.2 (forthcoming 2021). University of Edinburgh Press.

 

Other Publications

 

Manuscripts Under Review and Preparing for Submission (available upon request)

  • “Platform Aesthetics: Contemporary Art, Cognitive Complexity, Political Agency” (preparing for submission).

  • “Making It Implicit: Norms, Practices, and the ‘Spirit’ of Aesthetics in Late Wittgenstein” (preparing for submission).

  • “’No More Nature’: First Nature and ‘Last Humans’ in Beckett’s Endgame” (preparing for submission).

  • “Kant’s Unknown Animal: Reason, Speculation, and Speciation in Aesthetic Judgment” (preparing for submission).

  • “Senses and Events in Wittgenstein and Deleuze” (preparing for submission).

 

Conferences and Presentations

 

Conferences and Symposia

  • “Philosophy, Vision, and Science in the Aesthetics of Non-Photography.” “Non-Aesthetics” Panel, Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC/AAUC) Conference, October 2020.

  • “Logical Space, Phase Space, and the Paradox of Solipsism in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.” Harvard/MIT Graduate Conference in Philosophy, (cancelled due to COVID-19) April 2020.

  • “Platform Aesthetics: Contemporary Art, Cognitive Complexity, Political Agency.” “Accelerating Art, Accelerating Culture” Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC/AAUC) Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, October 2019.

  • Seminar Participant in Niklaus Largier’s “Figures of Possibility: Figuration, Imagination, and the Phenomenology of Rhetorical Effects” Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, 2019 Session, Cornell University, June-July 2019.

  • “Expression and Aesthetic Thought in Dewey, Adorno, and Deleuze,” Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC/AAUC) Conference, University of Waterloo, October 2018.

  • “Senses and Events in Wittgenstein and Deleuze,” Participants’ Conference, Summer Symposium in Contemporary Philosophy, International Centre for Philosophy, NRW, University of Bonn, Germany, July 2018.

  • “Wittgenstein's Late ‘Method’ of Clear Confusion,” “#BREVITY,” 16th Annual MLL Graduate Conference, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literature, Western University, 2014.

 

Guest Lectures and Invited Talks

  • “Mechanism, Modernism, Beckett’s Endgame,” guest lecture in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Huron University College, November 2019.

  • “First Nature and ‘Last Men’ in Beckett’s Endgame,” Theory Session, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, Western University, 2019.

  • “Gesture, Context, and ‘Abstraction’ in the Figural,” guest lecture in the Department of Visual Arts/VAS2216A, Western University, 2018.

  • “Stupid, Dumb Idiot: Deleuze, Wittgenstein and Others on Creation, Thought, and Stupidity,” Theory Session, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, Western University, 2014.

 

Responses and Discussions

  • Guest discussant about Deleuze and Guattari’s “Apparatus of Capture” Pt. 2 on Theory and Philosophy podcast, hosted by David Guignion, Jun. 2019. https://theoretician.podbean.com/

  • Respondent for Nicholas Birmingham, “Icon/Intuition: The Diagrammatic Thought of Kant and Peirce.” Theory Session. Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, Western University, March 2019.

  • Guest discussant about Deleuze and Guattari’s “Apparatus of Capture” Pt. 1 on Theory and Philosophy podcast, hosted by David Guignion, Aug. 2018. https://theoretician.podbean.com/

  • Respondent for Matthew Toth, Theory Session. Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, Western University, 2013.

 

Teaching and Research Experience

 

Courses Taught

  • “Survey of 19th Century Art” (2 sections), Art History and Contemporary Culture/AHIS 2010, NSCAD University, 2021.

  • “Aesthetics,” Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and School of Interdisciplinary Studies/HUMN2001, OCAD University, 2020

  • “Survey of 19th Century Art” (2 sections), Art History and Contemporary Culture/AHIS 2010, NSCAD University, 2020.

  • “19th Century: Art and Revolution in France,” Art History and Contemporary Culture/AHIS 3902, NSCAD University, 2020.

 

Teaching Assistant

  • “Introduction to the Arts and Humanities,” School of Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities (SASAH), Western University, Prof. Laurence de Looze, 2019.

  • “Introduction to Painting,” Department of Visual Arts, Western University, Prof. Kim Moodie, 2018.

  • "Mapping Media and Cultural Theory," Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS)/MIT2200F, Western University, Prof. Alexandra Torres, 2017 (tutorial).

  • "Art and Fashion: What (not) to Wear," Department of Visual Arts, Western University, Prof. Bridget Elliot, 2017.

  • "Mapping Media and Cultural Theory," Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University, Prof. Alexandra Torres, 2016 (tutorial).

  • "Baroque and Rococo Art," Department of Visual Arts, Western University, Prof. C. Cody Barteet, 2013.

 

Research Assistant

  • Heidegger: Dwelling, Thinking, and Ethical Life conference, Western University (CSTC)/Kings University College (Philosophy), Prof. Antonio Calcagno, 2017.

 

Areas of Expertise/Competence

 

Expertise

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein.

  • Theories of sense, philosophy of language, semiotics.

  • Philosophies/theories of experience, aesthetics, art.

  • Modernism in art, philosophy, politics, and literature.

  • Gilles Deleuze, Samuel Beckett.

 

Competence

  • 19th, 20th, 21st century Western Philosophy (Analytic, Continental, Pragmatism).

  • Indigenous and critical race theory, post-/decolonial theory, feminism, gender/trans- studies, global studies/neocoloniality, and political economy.

 

Leadership and Service

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  • Peer Reviewer, Academia Letters, 2021.

  • Chief Editor, Chiasma: A Site for Thought, 2017-20.

  • Deputy Chief Editor, Chiasma: A Site for Thought, 2016-17.

  • Deputy Editor, Chiasma: A Site for Thought, 2013-14, 2015-16.

 

Languages

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  • English, native speaker

  • French, research proficiency

  • Spanish, research proficiency

  • German, basic reading

  • Latin, basic reading

 

Memberships

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  • Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC/AAUC), 2018-present.

  • Western Ontario Early Modern Philosophy Research Group, 2019-present.

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