With my semester of teaching completed, I have now begun work on several projects for the summer. To keep myself on task, I am taking an inventory of what I have published, what I am working on and what plans I have for the future.

Already Published and in Print

Article: “At the Opening of Madness: An Exploration of the Nonrational with Merleau- Ponty, Foucault and Kierkegaard.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 33, no. 3 (2019): 475-488.

Article: “Situating Melancholy in Kierkegaard’s The Concept of Anxiety.” Philosophy & Theology Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2014): 39-64.

Accepted for publication (as of today!)

Chapter in Edited Book: “The Need for Merleau-Ponty in Foucault’s Account of the Abnormal.” In Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty, edited by Talia Welsh and Susan Bredlau, SUNY Press. Abstract.

Currently Working On

Article: “The Carnival of the Mad: Foucault’s Window into the Origin of Psychology.” I will be submitting this soon to the journal Foucault Studies. Abstract.

Book Proposal: Madness in Merleau-Ponty and Foucault: Integrating Human Experience in History. I am working on the proposal and editing the first chapter to submit to the Psychology and the Other Book Series at Routledge. The first chapter title is: The Case for Unity: The Need for Experience and History in Understanding Madness. Related to my Dissertation Abstract.

Article: No title yet. Something on phenomenology and liturgy in relation to the presence of humans in community. This will be submitted to the journal Religions.

Future Plans

Article: The Need for Foucault in Merleau-Ponty’s Account of the Abnormal.

Article: No title yet. Something on the relation between Foucault’s unreason (déraison) and Victor Hugo’s display of madness in Les Miserables.