Postgraduate Degrees Completed
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, 2023
M.A. Philosophy; Exam: Contemporary Continental Philosophy
University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019
M.A. Religious Studies
The University of Nottingham, England, 2014
M.A. Theology, Philosophy and Literature
Peer Reviewed Articles & Chapters
Das All ist nur virtuelle: Paganism, Fiction and the Concepts of Redemption, Truth, and God in Der Stern der Erlösung. Rosenzweig Jahrbuch/Rosenzweig Yearbook. Verlag Karl Alber. No. 12. 2021.
Edited Volume Chapters
Broken Mirrors, Distorted Reflections: Concrétude and the Human Being in Rosenzweig, Heidegger, and Adorno. Humanity: An Endangered Idea? Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. Conference 2019. Ed. Ingolf U. Dalferth, Marlene A. Block. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022.
Narrating the Other: On Speaking of the Origin of Time and the Time of the Origin. Ed. Derek Attridge and Mantra Mukim. Literature and Event: 21st Century Reformulations. Conference Volume. London: Routledge, 2021.
Difference Through the Prism of the Same: Apophasis and Negative Dialectic in Rosenzweig and Adorno. The Meaning and Power of Negativity. Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. Conference 2017. Ed. Ingolf U. Dalferth, Trevor Kimball. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021.
Negative Dialektik as Immanent Critique, and the Question Concerning the Construction of the Self and the Object. Constructing “Data” in Religious Studies: Examining the Architecture of the Academy. Ed. Leslie Dorrough Smith. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 2019.
Translations
Reiner Schürmann. Le phénomène de la question, in Reiner Schürmann: Writings on God, Eckhart, and Zen. Ed. Ian Moore & Francesco Guercio. University of Chicago Press, 2023. French to English.
Book Reviews
Donovan Schaeffer. Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power Critical Research on Religion. In Critical Research on Religion. Volume 5:2. May 11. 2017.
Awards and Grants (Partial List)
Udo Keller Stiftung Forum Humanum Claremont Conference Grant, 2020
Nevin Graduate Endowment Fellowship – The University of California, Irvine, 2020
Regents Fellowship – School of Humanities, The University of California, Irvine, 2019-2020
Minority Serving Institutions Fellowship – The University of California, Irvine, 2019-2020
Summer Stipend – School of Humanities, The University of California, Irvine, 2020
UC Irvine Diversity Recruitment Fellowship – The University of California, Irvine, 2019
J.F. Rowny Endowment Fellowship – Jewish Studies and the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015-2019
Udo Keller Stiftung Forum Humanum Claremont Conference Grant, 2019
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Intensive Language Course Grant, 2017
Udo Keller Stiftung Forum Humanum Claremont Conference Grant, 2017
Presentations (Partial List)
Theory and Narration: Philosophy of Religion, Supersessionism, and the Status of History. Theology and Continental Philosophy of Religion Unit. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Denver, USA. November 17-18, 2022.
Religion as History as Narration: Universalism, Literariness and the Liberation Philosophy of Enrique Dussel. International Society for Religion, Literature, and Culture Conference. University of Chester, U.K., September 16-18, 2022.
Otherwise than History: Rosenzweig’s Critique of Thinking Being with regard to Emmanuel Levinas and Enrique Dussel. 2022 Rosenzweig Congress. Frankfurt, Germany, July 16-21, 2022.
“At Home Out of Time, in Time Never Home: On Translating Franz Rosenzweig’s Globus.” Translat/abilities: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Translation Theory and Practice. January 31st, 2020. University of California, Irvine, USA.
“Wenn es liegt…aber es liegt nicht: Understanding the Aspect of True-Fiction in Rosenzweig’s Concept of Redemption.” 2019 Internationale Rosenzweig Gesellschaft Conference. February 17-20, 2019. Jerusalem, Israel.
Panelist on “Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion?” Roundtable Discussion. Theology and Continental Philosophy Unit. 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Boston, USA. November 17-18, 2017.
“Criticism and the Identification of Power and Knowledge in the Study of Religion: On Whether the Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) is Possible Today.” Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit. 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Boston, USA. November 17-18, 2017.
“Between Philosophy and Theology: Rosenzweig’s Das neue Denken, Language, and the Problem of Theology.” Faith in the Academy Theology Among the Disciplines, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Leuven, Belgium. August 28-30, 2017
“Difference Through the Prism of the Same: Apophasis and Negative Dialectic in Rosenzweig and Adorno.” 38th Annual Claremont Philosophy of Religion Conference, Forum Humanum Seminar. ‘The Meaning and Power of Negativity.’ Claremont, CA, USA. February 17-18, 2017.
“Sublation Without an End: The Status of Religion in The Dialectic of Enlightenment.” Sociology of Religion Group. 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. San Antonio, TX, USA. November 19-22, 2016.
“Jetztzeit and the Impurity of Assimilation: Reading Kafka’s ‘A Report to an Academy’ with Walter Benjamin.” Panel: “Between Hope and Pessimism: A Comparative Analysis of Hope and Pessimism in Black Studies and Modern Jewish Philosophy.” Philosophy of Religion Group. 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. San Antonio, TX, USA. November 19-22, 2016.
Service
Peer Reviewer: Critical Research on Religion. 2019, 2020.
Peer Reviewer: Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. 2017-2018
Languages (Inquire for Proficiency)
German – Reading, Writing, Speaking
Spanish – Reading, Writing, Speaking (Learning)
French – Reading
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