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  • Ph.D. Program

Research Interests

Areas of Specialty

  • Latin American and Spanish Philosophies (especially Enrique Dussel, Bolívar Echeverría, María Zambrano, Xavier Zubiri)
  • Modern Jewish Thought (especially Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin)
  • Phenomenology (especially Edmund Husserl, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Marion)
  • Frankfurt School Critical Theory
  • German Idealisms (especially Kant, Hegel, Schelling)
  • Decolonial and Contemporary Political Philosophies
  • Philosophies of History and Religion

Educational Background

  • M.A. in Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University - Los Angeles, 2023
  • M.A. in Religious Studies, University of California - Santa Barbara, 2019
  • M.A. in Theology, Philosophy, and Literature, University of Nottingham - UK, 2014
  • B.A. in Christian Studies with Concentration in Theology & Philosophy, California Baptist University - Riverside, 2010

Selected Publications

  • Peer Reviewed Articles & Chapters / Artículos y Capítulos 

    Das All ist nur virtuelle: Paganism, Fiction and the Concepts of Redemption, Truth, and God in Der Stern der Erlösung. Rosenzweig Yearbook / Rosenzweig Jahrbuch. Herder Verlag. No. 12. 2021. p. 30-46.

    Edited Volume Chapters / Capítulos en Volúmenes Editados

    Broken Mirrors, Distorted Reflections: Concrétude and the Human Being in Rosenzweig, Heidegger, and Adorno in Humanity: An Endangered Idea? Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023.

    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. 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 / Traducciones

    Reiner Schürmann “The Phenomenon of the Question in Theology,” in Reiner Schürmann: Writings on God, Eckhart, and Zen. 2023. Co-Translated with Francesco Guerico. Diaphanes, 2024. French to English.

    Book Reviews / Reseñas de Libros

    Donovan Schaeffer. Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power. In Critical Research on Religion. Volume 5:2. May 11. 2017.