Teaching

In 2025-26 I am teaching the following courses at University of Warwick:

Beauvoir’s Existentialism (graduate seminar)

Philosophy and Tragedy (undergraduate lecture/seminar)

Selected Previous Teaching (undergraduate unless otherwise indicated):

Hegel in Context (University of Warwick)

Introduction to Ethics (Auburn University)

Kant’s Critique of Judgment (University of Chicago)

Simone de Beauvoir as Philosopher  (University of Chicago) Syllabus here.

Description: This class will survey the philosophical work of twentieth-century Existentialist thinker Simone de Beauvoir. Best known as the author of the landmark second-wave feminist book, The Second Sex, de Beauvoir wrote extensively on topics in ethics, politics, and phenomenology. She also published several novels, one of which (The Mandarins) won the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Even so, the vast majority of de Beauvoir’s work is rarely studied in either France or the United States. Our goal in this class will be to take de Beauvoir seriously as one of the most important philosophical thinkers of the twentieth century. We will aim to understand her intellectual program holistically, with emphasis on the way in which her Existentialist concerns informed her work in literature and feminism. 

Works to be read include The Ethics of Ambiguity, The Second Sex, The Mandarins, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, and selected essays. Classes and readings will be in English; background knowledge of post-Kantian European philosophy is helpful but not necessary. 

Philosophical Perspectives I & II (University of Chicago)

Classics of Social & Political Thought I & III (University of Chicago)