I am currently a Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University in 2025. I work on German Idealism, aesthetics, and social philosophy, with a particular focus on the idea of freedom. I’m especially curious about what we might call marginal aspects of freedom: the phenomena and practices which we typically don’t think of as central to freedom but which are nevertheless essential to experiencing life as truly free. Examples might include art, creativity, and love.

My current research centers on Hegel’s aesthetics and how it solves certain problems created by his social philosophy, concerning in particular the concept of habit. I’ve also written about hermeneutical injustice, French Kantianism in the 1980s, and the novels of Thomas Mann.

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