I'm the subject librarian for East Asian Languages and Cultures, Philosophy, Religion, Classical Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Arabic Language and Cultures. I really enjoy working with Haverford (and Trico) students on projects in these areas, particularly in research consultations. Don't hesitate to get in touch with me about anything.
I received my Ph.D. with distinction from DePaul University in Chicago, where I concentrated in ancient Chinese and 20th century European philosophy. My dissertation, “The Sense In Which All Things Move: Concepts of Meaning and World in Heidegger and the Zhuangzi 莊子,” dealt with the concept of the limit of possible sense (or meaning), experience, and language. Here the "limit" isn't just where what can make sense stops. Counterintuitively, it's actually what makes all language and experience possible.
(Just in case anyone worries I straightforwardly admire Heidegger, I read him against himself when it comes what he says about race and politics. I don't think he can ground any of that, at least in the sense he wants to give it, in his otherwise genuinely important philosophical contributions. Or not without turning the latter into gibberish, at least. So on these points, I think Heidegger is an extremely bad reader of Heidegger.)
Before joining Haverford in 2023, I worked in libraries at the University of Pittsburgh and Marshall University (in Huntington, W.Va.; I'm from just down the road, if you'd like to meet a real-life Appalachian). In a previous life, I taught philosophy in Chicago and for a little while in the PRC.
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