Education
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Master of Arts, University of Chicago
Bachelor of Arts, Northwestern University
Professional Experience
Associate Professor of English, U.S. Air Force Academy (2016-present)
Richard Macksey Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University (2015-2016)
Instructor of Intellectual History, Maryland Institute College of Art (2009-2016)
Instructor, Graham School Basic Program, University of Chicago (2006-2008)
Honors & Awards
Mellon School for Theater and Performance Research, Harvard University: participant and blogger for the sixth session, “Theaters Sacred and Profane” (2016)
Richard Macksey Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University, (2015-2016)
The Remarque Institute of New York University, Kandersteg Seminar: invited participant for the seminar “Sovereignty: History and Transformation.” Kandersteg, Switzerland (2015)
Principles of Cultural Dynamics Fellow: invited participant for the symposium “Performance Philosophy and the Future of Genre: Thinking Through Tragedy and Comedy.” Berlin (2014)
Dean's Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, for the course “Studies in Modern Drama: Ibsen to Ionesco” (2013)
The DramaNet Project, Freie Universität Berlin: invited participant for the conference, “Dramatic Experience: Poetics of Drama and the Public Sphere(s)” (2013)
Center for Advanced Media Studies Fellow, Johns Hopkins University (2012-2013)
Mellon School for Theater and Performance Research, Harvard University: selected participant in the second session, “Theater and Philosophy” (2012)
Shirley Passow and Ruth Rickard Humanities Fellow, Johns Hopkins University (2011-2012)
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, for the course “Sovereignty and Modern Drama” (2011)
Mellon School for Theater and Performance Research, Harvard University: selected participant in the inaugural session, “Theater Among the Other Arts” (2011)
Summer Research Grant for language study in Italy, Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center (2010)
Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center, Graduate Fellowship (2007-2008)
Research and Scholarly Interests
Modern and Contemporary Drama
Aesthetic and Philosophical Modernism
History and Theory of Theater
Classical and Renaissance Reception
Political Theology
Literature and Religion, Philosophy, and the Arts
Publications
Editor, with Zvi Ben-Dor Benite and Stefanos Geroulanos, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept, Columbia University Press, Studies in Political Thought Series, 2017.
“Scaffolding Sovereignty: Editors' Introduction,” with Z. Ben-Dor Benite and S. Geroulanos, in The
Scaffolding of Sovereignty.
“Exit the King? Modern Theater and the Revolution,” in The Scaffolding of Sovereignty.
“Modern and Tragic? Kierkegaard’s Antigone and the Aesthetics of Isolation,” in Philosophy and Literature Vol. 38, no. 1 (April 2014): 188-203.
Review of Jonathan Strauss, Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality, in Critical Inquiry Vol. 41, no. 2 (Winter 2015; online, June 2014).
Review of Rethinking Tragedy (Rita Felski, editor), in Modern Language Notes 124 (Dec. 2009): 1219-23.