Teaching

Courses taught:

a) At UMass Amherst:

  • ‘Early Modern Feminism’ (Fall 2023)
  • ‘Death and the Meaning of Life’ (Fall 2020; Fall 2021; Fall 2022; Fall 2023)
  • ‘Slavery and Race in Early Modern Philosophy’ (Fall 2022)
  • ‘Mind and Body in Early Modern Philosophy’ (graduate seminar, Spring 2023)
  • ‘Leibniz’ (graduate seminar; Fall 2021)
  • ‘Power, Politics, and Human Nature’ (Fall 2020; co-taught with Vanessa de Harven)
  • ‘Freedom in Early Modern Philosophy’ (Spring 2020)
  • ‘History of Modern Philosophy’ (Spring 2020; Spring 2021; Spring 2022; Spring 2023)
  • ‘Teleology in Early Modern Philosophy’ (graduate seminar, Fall 2019)
  • ‘Philosophy of Religion’ (Fall 2019)

b) At Ohio State:

  • ‘17th Century Philosophy’ (Fall 2018)
  • ‘Death and the Meaning of Life’ (Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018)
  • ‘Teaching Philosophy at High School’ (service-learning course; Spring 2018 and Spring 2019)
  • ‘Introduction to Philosophy of Religion: Theism vs. Atheism’ (Spring 2018; co-taught with Steven Brown)
  • ‘Early Modern Moral Philosophy’ (graduate seminar; Fall 2017)
  • ‘Dissertation Seminar’ (Spring 2017 and Spring 2019)
  • ‘Studies in 18th Century Philosophy: Free Will’ (Fall 2016)
  • ‘Leibniz’ (graduate seminar; Fall 2015)
  • ‘18th Century Philosophy’ (Spring 2015)
  • ‘Introduction to Philosophy of Religion’ (Spring 2015 and Fall 2015)
  • ‘Free Will in Early Modern Philosophy’ (graduate seminar; Spring 2014)
  • ‘Studies in 17th Century Philosophy: Leibniz’ (Fall 2013)
  • ‘Honors Introduction to Philosophy’ (Fall 2013 and Fall 2014)

c) At Yale:

  • ‘The Philosophy of Leibniz,’ co-taught with Michael Della Rocca and Thomas Feeney (Spring 2013)

At Ohio State, I also directed the Ohio State Philosophy and Critical Thinking (PACT) summer camp for high school students for three years. At UMass, I co-direct Question Everything, a summer philosophy program for high school students.