Dr. Theodore George Professor of Philosophy and Texas A&M University Presidential Impact Fellow Areas of specialization: Hermeneutics, contemporary continental ethics, philosophy of art and aesthetics, Hegel, German Idealism and Romanticism Areas of competence: continental European philosophy since Kant, the history of Western philosophy, applied hermeneutics Education: Ph.D. in Philosophy, Villanova University, 2000 Dissertation: “Hegel’s Speculative Theory of Political Life: Community and Tragedy in the Phenomenology of Spirit” Committee: Dr. Dennis Schmidt (Director), Dr. Walter Brogan, Dr. Julie Klein Fulbright Fellow, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, 1998–1999 Host: Prof. Dr. Günter Figal M.A. in Philosophy, Villanova University, 1997 B.A. in Philosophy and German (double major), Whitman College, 1993 Cum Laude, with honors and distinction in Philosophy and with distinction in German Thesis: “The Structure of Rebirth in Walden: A Connection with Thus Spoke Zarathustra” Chair: Dr. Tom Davis Appointments: Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, 2020–present Associate Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, 2007–2020 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, 2001–2007 Administrative Appointments: Head, Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, 2015–2023 (Research leave 2018–2019; Interim Head 2014–2015) Honorary Appointments: Professor (Adjunct appointment), Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, 2021–present Professor (Adjunct appointment), College of Fellows, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 2016–2021 Editorial Appointments: Area Editor, Philpapers, “Hermeneutics” / and Leaf Editor “Hans-Georg Gadamer,” 2014– present Editor, Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2012–2023 2 Publications: Authored books The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, paperback 2022). Reviewed Niall Keane, Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 51 (2021): 464–475. (http://doi:10.1163/15691640-12341485). Reviewed Nancy Moules, Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2020 (https://doi.org/10.11575/jah.vi0.71086). Reviewed Graham McCaffrey, Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2020 (https://doi.org/10.11575/jah.vi0.71128). Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel’s Phenomenology (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006, paperback 2007). Reviewed Tom Bunyard, Hegel Bulletin, Vol. 30, Issue 1-2, No. 59/60 (2009): 88–95. Notice in Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie, Vol. 67, No. 3 (2007): 607. Edited books Theodore George and Gert-Jan van der Heiden, eds., The Gadamerian Mind (London and New York: Routledge, 2021, paperback 2023). Reviewed Chun Lin, Recensioni di Filosofia, Vol. 11, No. 1 (http://universa.padovauniversitypress.it/issue/11/1) Reviewed Vladimir Lazurca, Phenomenological Reviews (https://reviews.ophen.org/2022/04/21/theodore-george-gert-jan-van-der-heiden-thegadamerian-mind-2/) Charles Bambach and Theodore George, eds., Philosophers and their Poets: Reflections on the Poetic Turn in Philosophy since Kant (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019, paperback 2020). Reviewed Sarah Fayad, Phenomenological Reviews (https://reviews.ophen.org/2020/09/10/charles-bambach-theodore-george-edsphilosophers-and-their-poets/). 3 Book translations Günter Figal, Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010), English translation of Günter Figal, Gegenständlichkeit: Das Hermeneutische und die Philosophie (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010, paperback 2011). Journal Special Issues Guest editor for Anglophone contributions, International Yearbook for Hermeneutics, Vol. 21 (2022, forthcoming). Mirela Oliva, Cristiana Freni, and Theodore George, Guest editors, Special Issue “Hermeneutic Realism and Veritative Hermeneutics,” Critical Hermeneutics, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2022). Guest editor for Anglophone contributions, International Yearbook for Hermeneutics, “Interpretation, Understanding, Knowledge,” Vol. 20 (2022). Essays “Hermeneutics between intuition and language: Robert Dostal’s Gadamer on interpretation, objectivity, and the project of humanism,” invited panelist, Robert Dostal’s Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: Between Phenomenology and Dialectic, Existenz (forthcoming). “Heidegger on the Poet’s Vocation: Cultural Nationalism, Linguistic Nationalism, and the Prospects of the Poetic Word,” and, “Response” invited symposium on “Dichtung in Heidegger’s Thinking,” Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, Vol. 13 (forthcoming). “Editor’s Introduction,” co-authored with Mirela Oliva and Christiana Freni, Special Issue “Hermeneutic Realism and Veritative Hermeneutics,” Critical Hermeneutics, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2022), i–vi. “Is Hermeneutics Realistic? On the Normative Orientation toward Plurality,” Special Issue “Hermeneutic Realism and Veritative Hermeneutics,” Critical Hermeneutics, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2022), 191–210. “Toward a Paradigm Shift in the Philosophy of Testimony: Gert-Jan van der Heiden’s The Voice of Misery, a Continental Philosophy of Testimony,” review article, Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 52, no. 3 (2022): 443–456. “Gadamer on the significance of humanism for the human sciences, or, truth and edification,” in ed. Cynthia Nielsen and Greg Lynch, Gadamer’s Truth and Method: A Polyphonic Commentary (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022): 3–19. “Gadamer, German Idealism, and the Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology” in ed. Cynthia D. Coe, Palgrave Companion to German Idealism and Phenomenology (Palgrave, 2021): 4 529–545. “Introduction to the Gadamerian Mind,” co-authored with Gert-Jan van der Heiden, in The Gadamerian Mind (Routledge, 2021). “Gadamer on the Politics of Translation,” in The Gadamerian Mind (Routledge, 2021). “Hermeneutics,” in ed. Edward N. Zalta, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2020 Edition), (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hermeneutics/). “The University,” Roundtable with several panelists, The Journal of Continental Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2020): 117–185. “Hermeneutic Responsibility: Vattimo, Gadamer, and the Impetus of Interpretive Engagement,” Duquesne Journal of Phenomenology, special issue, “Hermeneutics Today,” guest editor, James Risser, Vol. 1, No 1 (2020): Article 4, 1–14. “Introduction. Poetizing and Thinking,” co-authored with Charles Bambach, in Philosophers and their Poets: Reflections on the Poetic Turn in German Philosophy Since Kant (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019): 1–20. “Hegel, Romantic Art, and the Unfinished Task of the Poetic Word,” in Philosophers and their Poets: Reflections on the Poetic Turn in German Philosophy Since Kant (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019): 65–83. “Hermeneutics in Post-war Continental European Philosophy,” co-authored David Liakos and Theodore George, in eds. Iain Thompson and Kelly Becker, The Cambridge History of Philosophy: 1945-2015 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019): 399–415. “Beyond Speculative Realism? Günter Figal’s phenomenological realism and the exteriority of correlation,” in Die Gegenständlichkeit der Welt. Festschrift für Günter Figal zum 70. Geburtstag (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019): 57–74. “Hermeneutics as Slow Philosophy,” special round table discussion, Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 49, No. 2 (2019): 241–245. “Birth Cry – Or, the Hermeneutics of Facticity, from the Finitude of Language to the Body in Pain,” International Journal for Hermeneutics, Vol. 18, No. 1 (2018): 110–126. “Grieving as Limit Situation of Memory: Gadamer, Beamer, and Moules on the Infinite Task Posed by the Dead,” Journal of Applied Hermeneutics (2017): Article 11, 1–6. (PID: http://hdl.handle.net/10515/sy5pg1j58). “In a World Fraught and Tender: on Dennis Schmidt’s Contributions to an Original Ethics,” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, Special Issue ed. Nancy Tuana and Charles Scott, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Fall 2017): 39–52. 5 “Art as Testimony of Tradition and as Testimony of Ordering,” International Journal for Hermeneutics, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2017): 107–120. “Are We a Conversation? Hermeneutics, Exteriority, and Transmittability,” Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 47, No. 1 (2017): 331–350. “Gadamer and German Idealism,” in eds. Niall Keane and Chris Lawn, The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics (Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), 54–62. “The Promise of World Literature,” International Journal for Hermeneutics, Vol. 13 (2014): 128–143. “Introduction,” author meets critics discussion of Günter Figal, Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy, in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 44, No. 1 (2014): 107– 110. “Remarks on James Risser’s The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics,” Philosophy Today, Vol. 58, No. 1 (2014): 107–116. “The Responsibility to Understand,” in ed. Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Phenomenological Perspectives on Plurality (Leiden: Brill Publishing, 2014), 103–120. “Thing, Object, Life,” Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 42, no. 1 (2012): 18–34. “Objectivity and the Openness of Language: On Figal’s Recent Contribution to the Debate between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction,” in eds. Friederike Rese, Michael Steinmann, and David Espinet, Objektivität und Gegenstaendlichkeit (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011): 218–234. “From Work to Play: Gadamer on the Affinity of Art, Truth, and Beauty,” Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, Vol. 10 (2011): 107–122. “Passive Resistance: Giorgio Agamben and the Bequest of Early German Romanticism and Hegel,” Epoché, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2011): 37–48. “Forgiveness, Freedom, and Human Finitude in Hegel’s Spirit of Christianity and its Fate,” International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 1 (2011): 39–54. “De la invisibilidad a la intimidad: Honneth, Gadamer y el reconocimiento del otro,” trans. Juanita Maldonado Colmenares, in ed. María del Rosario Acosta López, Reconocimiento y diferencia (Bogotá: CESO, 2010), 295–318. “Objectivity and Finite Transcendence in Günter Figal’s Hermeneutical Philosophy,” Introduction to Günter Figal, Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy, trans. Theodore George (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010), xi–xxvi. 6 “Günter Figal’s Hermeneutics,” Philosophy Compass, Vol. 4, No. 6 (December 2009): 904– 12. “What is the Future of the Past? Gadamer and Hegel on Truth, Art and the Ruptures of Tradition,” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 40, No. 1 (January 2009): 4–20. “From the Life of a People to the Death of Others: On Jean-Luc Nancy’s Unworking of Heidegger’s Politics,” International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 40, No. 1 (2008): 65–77. “The Worklessness of Literature: Blanchot, Hegel, and the Ambiguity of the Poetic Word,” Philosophy Today, Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Vol. 50, supplement (2006): 39–47 (double column). “A Monstrous Absolute: Kant, Schelling, and the Poetic Turn in Philosophy,” in ed. Jason Wirth, Schelling Now, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 135–146. “Specifications: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Comedy of the End of Art,” Epoché, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Fall 2003): 107–21. “The Myth of the West Interrupted: Community and Cultural Difference in Nancy’s ‘Literary Communism,” International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Spring 2002): 49–63. “Community in the Idiom of Crisis: Hegel on Political Life, Tragedy, and the Dead,” Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 32 (2002): 123–38. “The Disruption of Health: Shaffer, Foucault, and ‘the Normal,’” Journal of Medical Humanities, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Winter 1999): 231–45. Poetry “Unbeknownst to me…,” in The Alien Buddha’s Best of 2021 (Alien Buddha Press, 2021), excerpted from Motherfisher, a haiku-story of grieving in the age of COVID (Alien Buddha Press, 2021). Motherfisher, a haiku-story of grieving in the age of COVID (Alien Buddha Press, 2021). Essay translations Günter Figal, “Image and Word: On Plato’s Symposium,” Epoché, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring 2003): 251–58. Hans-Georg Gadamer, “Nicolaus Cusanus and the Present,” Epoché, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Fall 2002): 71–80. 7 Book Reviews Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor, eds., Carnal Hermeneutics, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. March 7, 2017. Donatella Di Cesare, Utopia of Understanding: Between Babel and Auschwitz, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. February 9, 2013. Review Article, Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts (Acumen, 2010), Continental and Comparative Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2010): 291–300. Reference entries “Hermeneutics,” entry with summary, key works, and see-also references, Philpapers, May 2014, rvsd. September 2018. “Hans-Georg Gadamer,” entry with summary, key works, and see-also references, Philpapers, May 2014, rvsd. September 2018. As editor, Epoché: a journal for the history of philosophy Epoché 28, No. 1 (Fall 2023), 1–142. Special Issue, Selections from APS, 2021–2022. Epoché 27, No. 2 (Spring 2023), 182–354. Epoché 27, No. 1 (Fall 2022), 1–181. Epoché 26, No. 2 (Spring 2022), 273–444. Epoché 26, No. 1 (Fall 2021), 1–272. Epoché 25, No. 2 (Spring 2021), 471–484. Special Issue, Selections from APS, 2019–2020. Epoché 25, No. 1 (Fall 2020), 1–234. Epoché 24, No. 2 (Spring 2020), 279–483. Epoché 24, No. 1 (Fall 2019), 1–278. Epoché 23, No. 2 (Spring 2019), 263–511. Special Issue, Selections from APS, 2017–2018. Epoché 23, No. 1 (Fall 2018), 1–262. Epoché 22, No. 2 (Spring 2018), 177–539. Epoché 22, No. 1 (Fall 2017), 1–175. Special Issue, Idioms of Ethical Life: Essays Honoring the Work of Dennis J. Schmidt. Guest editors Nancy Tuana and Charles Scott. Epoché 21, No. 2 (Spring 2017), 251–461. Special Issue, Selections from APS, 2015–2016. Epoché 21, No. 1 (Fall 2016), 1–250. Epoché 20, No. 2 (Spring 2016), 281–516. Epoché 20, No. 1 (Fall 2015), 1–280. Epoché 19, No. 2 (Spring 2015), 173–328. Special Issue, Selections from APS, 2013–2014. Epoché 19, No. 1 (Fall 2014), 1–172. 8 Commissioned “Toward a Globalist Hermeneutics: Interpretation, Art, and the Meaning of Hermeneutic ‘Integration,’” International Yearbook for Hermeneutics. “The ontic and ontological, as phenomenological concepts,” ed. Ted Toadvine and Nicholas de Warren, The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology (Springer). Grants and awards: External Collaborator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Insight Grant, Nursing and Humanities: An Evolving Relationship, 2023–present Collaborator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Insight Grant, The Public Face of Grief: Bereavement and Social Media, 2020–2022 Guest Researcher, Canadian Hermeneutics Institute, College of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, June 2021 Guest Researcher, Canadian Hermeneutics Institute, College of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, June 2018 Guest Researcher, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, June 2014 Goethe Institute Translation Grant for Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010), awarded via SUNY press Fulbright Research Grant, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 1998–99 German Academic Exchange Service (D.A.A.D.) Intensive Language Grant, Universität Leipzig, Germany, 1997 Phi Beta Kappa, 1993 Scholar Athlete Award, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, 1993 Internal Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, Residential Fellowship, Spring 2024 (awarded Spring 2023). Texas A&M University Presidential Impact Fellowship, 2021 9 Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, Small Conference Grant, for Symposium, “Hermeneutics, the Humanities, and the Future of Interpretation,” Feb. 22–23, 2019, grant awarded 2018 College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, International Travel Support Grant: 2019 (Salzburg, Austria; Città di Castello, Italy) 2017 (Sydney, Australia) 2016 (Sydney, Australia; Freiburg, Germany and Città di Castello, Italy) 2015 (Freiburg, Germany) 2014 (Città di Castello, Italy) 2010 (Freiburg, Germany) 2008 (Bogotá, Colombia) 2005 (Città di Castello, Italy) Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, Small Conference Grant, for 11th annual meeting of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, grant awarded 2015 Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, Publication Support Grant, Philosophers and Their Poets, 2014 Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Notable Lecture Grant for Kenneth Nunn, awarded 2011 Scholarly and Creative Activities Award, Texas A&M University, 2009–10, “Beyond the Subject: Understanding, Interpretation, and Object in Günter Figal’s Hermeneutics” Ray A. Rothrock ’77 Fellowship for Newly Promoted Associate Professors, Texas A&M University, 2007–2010 Faculty Development Leave, “The Work and Play of Art: Philosophy and the Meaning of the Aesthetic,” Spring 2009 Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, Travel to Archives for Fieldwork Grant for Freiburg, Germany, 2007 Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, Faculty Release Fellowship, 2003–2004 John Tich Award for Scholarly Excellence, Villanova University, 1998 10 Presentations: “What to believe? Miracles, the miraculous, and problems of testimony,” invited speaker, Houston Symposium in Philosophy of Religion Lecture Series (sponsored by University of St. Thomas), Holocaust Museum Houston, November 2023. “What is hermeneutics for? Hermeneutics in the ‘mixed practice’ of nusing,” invited panelist, annual meeting of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Calgary, September 2023 “Toward a Global Hermeneutics: Interpretation, Art, and the Meaning of Hermeneutic ‘Integration,’ International Hermeneutics Symposium, Merano, Italy, June 2023 “Art as the Vitality of Memory: Hermeneutical Considerations of Preston Singletary’s Raven and the Box of Daylight,” annual meeting of the Canadian Hermeneutics Institute, Calgary, June 2023. “What Remains of the House of Being?” invited presentation, annual meeting of the North Texas Heidegger Symposium,” McKinney, Texas, April 2023. “Hermeneutics between intuition and language: Robert Dostal’s Gadamer on interpretation, objectivity, and the project of humanism,” invited panelist, satellite session of the Kark Jaspers Society at annual meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Denver, Colorado, March 2023. “Glass as Medium of Remembrance: Preston Singletary and the Hermeneutics of Tradition in a Globalized World,” invited colloquium, Program of Architecture, South Dakota State University, January 2023. “Watercolor Sketches in Architecture: From Preservation to Innovation,” Introduction for Art Exhibition Opening, Somaye Seddighikhavidak, “Watercolor as a Nomadic Medium in Architecture,” Ritz Gallery at South Dakota State University, January 2023. Book panel, Theodore George, The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), with Sarah LaChance Adams, Florida Blue Distinguished Professor and Director of the Florida Blue Center for Ethics, University of North Florida, Wayne Froman, George Mason University, Jamey Findling, Newman University, and Theodore George. Annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, October 2022. “Architectural design in the context of hermeneutics,” invited lecture, Studio Design Review, Program of Architecture, South Dakota State University, September 2022 Book panel, Theodore George, The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), with David Utsler, Texas Woman’s University, and David Liakos, Houston Community College, and Theodore George, Texas 11 A&M University. Annual meeting of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, September 2022. “The Responsibility to Understand: Listening to the Other as a Return to Reality,” Center for Continental European Philosophy, University of Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, October 2021 (via video conference). “Gadamer on the Geopolitics of Translation,” submitted presentation, annual meeting of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, October 2021 (via video conference). Invited lecture series, “On the Hermeneutics of Being Called: From the Certitude of Conscience to the Perplexity of Interpretive Practice,” Canadian Hermeneutics Institute, University of Calgary, Canada, June 2021 (via video conference). Lecture 1, “The Hermeneutics of Being Called” Lecture 2, “Understanding Ourselves Originally” Lecture 3, “Applying Ourselves, Applied Hermeneutics” Reviewed in Journal of Applied Hermeneutics (2021), “The Gifts of a Talk with TED” DOI: 10.11575/jah.v2021i2021 (https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jah/article/view/73014). “Walter Brogan, Philosophy as Increase in Being,” invited presentation, Symposium, In Honor of Walter Brogan, Villanova Pennsylvania, April 2021 (via video conference). “Is Hermeneutics ‘Realistic’? Two Responses and a Question,” invited keynote presentation, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Meyers, Florida, October 2020 (hosted in-person with participation by video conference). “The University in Crisis,” invited panelist, College of Fellows, Philosophy Research Initiative, Western Sydney University, Annual Meeting, Sydney, Australia, November 2019. “Speculative vs. Phenomenological Realism: On Günter Figal’s Realistic Turn in Phenomenology,” submitted presentation, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2019. “Responsibility as Hermeneutical Displacement,” invited colloquium presentation, Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, September 2019. “Two Interpretations of Interpretive Critique: Critique as Conflict and as Dialogue,” invited lecture, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Italy, July 2019. 12 “The Realist Challenge: A Recent Phenomenological Response,” invited presentation, North Texas Heidegger Symposium, McKinney, Texas, April 2019. “Cosmophilia, a Hermeneutical Perspective,” presented in conjunction with the annual meeting of the College of Fellows at the annual meeting of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Sydney, Australia, November 2018. “Hermeneutics as Slow Philosophy,” invited panelist, “What are Hermeneuts For?,” North American Society for the Philosophical Hermeneutics society meeting at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existentialism, State College, Pennsylvania, October 2018. Invited lecture series, “The Responsibility to Understand,” Canadian Hermeneutics Institute, University of Calgary, Canada, May 2018. Lecture 1, “The Unbearable Lightness of Ethics” Lecture 2, “The Responsibility to Understand” Lecture 3, “Responsibility at the Limits” “The Political as Not Yet Politics: Hermeneutical Experience and Solidarity in Gadamer’s Later Thought,” invited presentation, College of Fellows, Philosophy Research Initiative, Western Sydney University, Annual Meeting, Sydney, Australia, November 2017. “Birth Cry – On the Role of the Body in Hermeneutical Transmission,” invited colloquium presentation, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Buffalo, September 2017. “Birth Cry – Facticity, Language, and the Body,” invited keynote address, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2017. “The Body Between Language and Linguisticality,” invited presentation, International Hermeneutics Symposium, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Germany, July 2017. “Between Transmittability and Transmission,” invited presentation, North Texas Heidegger Symposium, McKinney, Texas, April 2017. “Hegel’s Aesthetics and the Critique of the Culture of Romanticism,” invited presentation, Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, Seattle, Washington, April 2017. “Halting Conversation,” invited presentation, College of Fellows, Philosophy Research Initiative, Western Sydney University, Inaugural Meeting, Sydney, Australia, November 2016. 13 “Are We a Conversation? Hermeneutics, Exteriority, Transmittablity,” invited André Schuwer Lecture, sponsored by the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University, annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2016. “In a World Fraught and Tender: on Dennis Schmidt’s Contribution to an Original Ethics,” invited presentation, Idioms of Ethical Life symposium, Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, October 2016. “Art as Testimony of Tradition and as Testimony of Ordering,” invited presentation, International Hermeneutics Symposium, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Germany, July 2016. “Toward a Hermeneutics of Animality,” invited presentation, North Texas Philosophical Association, Denton, Texas, April 2016. “Animal Others,” invited presentation, Phi Sigma Tau Honors Society Lecture, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas, March 2016. “Hermeneutical Displacement: On the Limits and Excesses of Understanding,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2015. “In Solidarity with Life: Gadamer, Humanity, and the Animal,” invited presentation, Freiburg International Hermeneutics Symposium, Freiburg, Germany, June 2015. “Gadamer, Understanding, and the Hermeneutics of Facticity,” invited presentation, North Texas Heidegger Symposium, Dallas, Texas, May 2015. “On the Melancholy of Spirit,” invited lecture, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Italy, July 2014. “Hermeneutical Displacement: On the Limits and Excesses of Understanding,” invited lecture, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, June 2014. “Lost and Found in Translation,” invited lecture, Philosophy Speaker Series, Duquesne University, March 2014. Available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32jkUH8BPY. “Global Solidarity, Visibility, and World Literature,” invited lecture, Jerry Jackson Lecture in the Humanities, sponsored by the Honors College and the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Western Carolina University, November 2013. “Remarks on James Risser’s The Life of Understanding,” invited commentator, author meets reader session, annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy,” Eugene, Oregon, October 2013. 14 “Hermeneutics, radical finitude, and the life situation: On James Risser’s The Life of Understanding,” invited commentator, author meets reader session, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Chicago, Illinois, September 2013. “The Promise of World Literature,” invited presentation, Freiburg International Hermeneutics Symposium, Freiburg, Germany, June 2013. “The Impetus to Understand,” invited presentation, Thinking Plurality, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, June 2013. “The Responsibility to Understand,” keynote address, annual meeting of the Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, College Station, Texas, May 2013. “The Responsibility to Understand,” invited presentation, North Texas Heidegger Symposium, Dallas, Texas, April 2013. “Understanding and the Ethical,” keynote address, North Texas Philosophical Association, Denton, Texas, April 2013. “Landscapes Unseen: The Romantic Bequest in the Hudson River School’s American Frontier,” invited presentation, Texas A&M University Forsyth Galleries Lecture Series, College Station, Texas, November 2012. “Fichte, Democracy, and Education: Responses and Questions,” invited respondent to Andrew Benjamin, Society for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Rochester, New York, November 2012. “Gadamer, World Literature, and the Meaning of Translation,” invited presentation, Comparative Perspectives: Poetic Discourse on Trans-Creation and Re-Creation in the Baroque and Neo-Baroque, College Station, Texas, April 2012. “Hegel, Romantic Art, and the Ethos of Adventure,” invited presentation, North Texas Philosophical Association, Denton, Texas, April 2012. “On the Inscrutability of the Past and Future,” invited commentator, author meets reader session, Colleen Murphy, A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, November 2011. “Kindness Toward What Is: Heidegger on Being, Art, and the ‘Guiding Measure’ of Conduct,” invited colloquium presentation, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, November 2011. “Thing, Object, Life,” invited presentation, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Boston, Massachusetts, September 2011. 15 “Preserving, Willing, Poetic Dwelling: Heidegger on the ‘Guiding Measure’ of Art,” invited presentation, North Texas Heidegger Symposium, Dallas, Texas, April 2011. “Realism or Facticity? A Gadamerian Rejoinder to Chelstrom,” invited commentator, Session on Gadamer and Phenomenology, annual meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2011. “Between Hermeneutics and Critical Theory: Hegel’s Idea of Romantic Art,” invited colloquium presentation, Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, February 2011. “Gadamer and the Unending Task of ‘World Literature,’” Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Montreal, Canada, November 2010. “The Work and Play of Art,” invited presentation, International Hermeneutics Symposium, Freiburg, Germany, July 2010. “Finite Transcendence, Objectivity, and the Word,” invited presentation, International Symposium on Objektivität und Gegenstaendlichkeit, Freiburg, Germany, May 2010. “Hermeneutic Dimensions of Recognition,” invited lecture, Anzaldúa Speaker Series, University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, Texas, March 2010. “Hegel on Action, History, and Existence,” invited commentator, Session on Nineteenth Century Philosophy, Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois, February 2010. “Nightingales and their Song: Philosophical Perspectives on Natural Beauty,” with Kristi Sweet, invited lecturer, Brazos Valley Audubon Society, College Station, Texas, November 2009. “Form/Ugly,” invited panelist, Architecture Theory Series, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, October 2009. “Love as Infinite Task,” invited commentator, Panel with Ty Camp, Annual Meeting of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Wichita, Kansas, September 2009. “Trespass, Tragedy, and Forgiveness in Hegel’s Early Thought,” invited speaker, North Texas Philosophical Association Annual Conference, Denton, Texas, March 2009. “From Theodicy to World History: Hegel on Forgiveness as Moral Responsiveness,” invited speaker, University Honors and Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Utah Valley University, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 2009. “Responses to Tragedy: Tragedies of Spirit and New Projects,” invited respondent to John McDermott and Steven Crowell, author meets reader session, Theodore George, Tragedies 16 of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel’s Phenomenology” (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006), Texas A&M University, February 2009. “From Parmenides to Derrida on Tragedy,” invited commentator, author meets reader session for Scott Austin, Parmenides (Las Vegas: Parmenides Press, 2007), Texas A&M University, Department of Philosophy and Humanities, College Station, Texas, November 2008. “Recognition, Friendship and the Other in Honneth and Gadamer,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 2008. “From Invisibility to Intimacy: Honneth, Gadamer, and the Claims of Recognition,” invited presentation, Conference on Recognition and Difference, University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, October 2008. “Forgiveness, Freedom, and Finitude in Hegel’s Spirit of Christianity,” invited lecture, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Italy, July 2008. “Truth, Art, and Tradition in Gadamer and Hegel,” invited colloquium, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois, April 2008. “‘Land of the Future’ —German Idealism, The Crisis of Enlightenment, and the Promise of the American Revolution,” Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 2006. “Passivity, Language, and Community: Giorgio Agamben’s Unworking of Hegel’s Aesthetics,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2006. “What is the Future of the Past? Gadamer and Hegel on the Work of Art in the Age of its Liberation,” Annual Meeting of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Wenham, Massachusetts, June 2006. “Cross-pollinations of Freedom: Schelling’s Naturphilosophie in Emerson’s New World,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, San Antonio, Texas, March 2006. “Kant’s Peculiar Fate in German Idealism,” invited colloquium presentation, Department of Philosophy at the California State University Stanislaus, Turlock, California, December 2005. “German Idealism and the Demands of Tragedy,” invited presentation, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon, November 2005. 17 “The Worklessness of Literature: Blanchot, Hegel, and the Ambiguity of the Written Word,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2005. “The Voluptuousness of Nature: Kant on Culture, Taste, and the Pleasure of the Foreign,” Annual Glasscock Center for Humanities International Conference, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, October 2004. “Hegel and Gadamer on the Pastness of Art and the Crisis of Tradition,” International Hermeneutics Symposium, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, July 2003. “From the Life of a People to the Death of Others: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Unworking of Heidegger’s Politics,” Annual Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Conference, SUNY Binghamton, New York, April 2003. “The West Interrupted: Jean-Luc Nancy, Cultural Difference, and the Prospect of a ‘Literary Communism,’” Annual Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Conference, SUNY Binghamton, New York, April 2002. “From Logic to Phenomenology,” invited commentator, Colloquium on Phenomenology, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, New York, New York, December 2000. “Hegel’s Dialectic of Recognition: Nature and the Tragic Work of Art,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, October 1998. “Love in the Young Hegel,” Participants’ Conference, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July 1996. “Irigaray, Beauty, and the Drama of Passion: Re-reading Diotima’s Presence at Plato’s Symposium,” Meeting of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, May 1996. 18 Teaching Teaching Recognition Association of Former Students Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, 2010 Graduate Education Graduate Courses Contemporary philosophy: toward a globalist theory of humanistic inquiry Contemporary philosophy: seminar in recent developments in phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics Contemporary philosophy: seminar on language in hermeneutics and deconstruction Contemporary philosophy: hermeneutics Contemporary philosophy: phenomenology Philosophical authors: Heidegger, Being and Time Philosophical authors: Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit Seminar in modern philosophy: Kant to Hegel Social and Political Philosophy Aesthetics Directed studies, guided research projects offered on various topics in continental European philosophy since Kant; teaching mentoring offered for Ph.D. students assigned to teaching. Graduate Advising As Ph.D. Advisor: Seyran Sam-Kookiaei, Philosophy, topic: phenomenological approaches to concept formation. Lewis Rosenberg, Philosophy, topic: hermeneutics, the German nature philosophy tradition, and environmental ethics. Brady DeHoust, Philosophy, topic: hermeneutical dimensions of the problem of divine revelation. Haley Burke, Philosophy, Cosmopolitan Solidarities: Hermeneutical Aesthetic Value and the Social Domain, in progress Alexander Crist, Philosophy, A Hermeneutics at the Limit: The Prelinguistic Testimony of Human Finitude, dissertation successfully defended May 2022. Current placement as tenure-track Assistant Professor, Pensacola State College, Pensacola, FL. Somaye Seddighikhavidak, co-director with Steven Caffey, Architecture, Mythopoetics of Space, dissertation successfully defended October 2021. Current placement as tenuretrack Assistant Professor, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD. 19 Christopher Black, Philosophy, Beyond Mediation: Thinking About Technology, Or, the Algorithm That I Also Am, dissertation successfully defended Summer 2021. Current placement as Teacher, Katz Yeshiva High School of South Florida, Boca Raton, FL. Brittany Leckey, Philosophy, Irritatingly Incomplete: Ontological Considerations of the Filmic Image, dissertation successfully defended Fall 2016. Current placement as permanent Academic Professional Track faculty and Program Coordinator, Department of Philosophy, South Texas College, Edinburgh, TX. Jennifer Gaffney, Philosophy, From Citizenship to the Space of Appearance: Arendt, Haiti and the Problem of Political Exclusion, dissertation successfully defended Fall 2015. Current placement as tenure-track Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL. Harris Bechtol, Philosophy, Inflections of the Event: The Death of the Other as Event in Heidegger, Derrida, and Marion, dissertation successfully defended Fall 2015. Current placement as permanent Academic Professional Track faculty, Texas A&M University San Antonio, San Antonio, TX. Shima Mohajeri, Architecture, On the Dialectic of Silence: Klee, Kahn, and the Space of Transversal Modernity in Iran, co-directed with Peter Lang, Architecture, dissertation successfully defended Spring 2013. Currently, independent scholar. Placements include Lecturer, Architecture, University of Washington; and, Design Lead, Architectural Gig, Seattle, WA. As Institutional Host for Ph.D. students Enise Betül Daniş, Religion Sciences, Istanbul University, International Research Fellow, topic: the philosophy of art, 2023–24. As Ph.D. Dissertation External Examiner Michael Lang, Nursing, University of Calgary (External Examiner), 2021 Galacia Blackman, Education, University of Calgary (External Examiner), 2021 Amie Liddle, Nursing, University of Calgary (External Examiner), 2020 Daniel Griffin, Philosophy, University of Guelph (External Examiner), 2019 Emily Williams, Educational Psychology, University of Calgary (External Examiner), 2019 As Master’s Thesis External Examiner Naoko Masuda, Education (M.Ed.), University of Lethbridge (external examiner), 2022 As Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member: Kate Stelfox, University of Calgary, Nursing, in progress Michael Portal, Philosophy, in progress Kristian Cantens, Philosophy, in progress Moriah Poliakoff, Philosophy, in progress Zachary Riggins, English, in progress Sara Chung, English, in progress 20 Nick Cenegy, English, 2022 Reed Stevens, Political Science, 2022 Hyunjung Kim, English, 2022 Jonathan Bibeau, Philosophy, 2021 Soha Chung, English, 2020 Stephen Haug, Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz, 2019 David Liakos, Philosophy, University of New Mexico, 2019 Kim, Seung-Hyun, English, 2019 Alex Haitos, Philosophy, 2018 Karen Davis, Philosophy, 2017 Kristin Drake, Philosophy, 2017 Mychelle Smith, Education, 2015 Bradley Goodine, Political Science, 2013 Charles Carlson, Philosophy, 2012 David Henderson, Philosophy, 2008 Muhammad Harris, Philosophy, 2008 Kent Dunnington, Philosophy, 2007 Soo Kim, English, 2007 Ashaman Sallah, English 2007 James Noland, Philosophy 2006 As M.A. Advisor: Crystal DelaFuente, Philosophy, 2012 Tyler Friedman, Philosophy, 2012 Alan Milam, Philosophy, 2010 Laura Lea Nalle, Philosophy, 2010 Anthony Pepitone, Philosophy, 2010 Ty Camp, Philosophy, 2008 Benjamin Craig, Philosophy, 2008 Ali Elamin, Philosophy, 2007 James Taylor, Philosophy, 2006 Katherine Willyard, Philosophy, 2003 Michael J. Tilley, Philosophy, 2002 As M.A. Thesis Committee Member: Patton Small, Performance Studies, 2022 Alexander Crist, English, 2020 Daniel Beatty, Philosophy, 2020 Christopher Black, English, 2019 Saleh Afroogh, Philosophy, 2019 Brittany Leckey, English 2015 Jackson Hoerth, Philosophy, 2014 Cody Moore, Philosophy, 2012 Naoyuki Nozaki, English, 2012 21 Rollin Mayes, English, 2010 Erik Berquist, Philosophy, 2008 Kyle Mask, Philosophy, 2008 Preston Stovall, Philosophy, 2008 Troy Deters, Philosophy, 2006 Brad Garrick Harden, Sociology, 2006 Shaun Miller, Philosophy, 2006 Leslie Herring, Philosophy, 2005 Jake Spiegelhauer, Philosophy, 2005 Charles DeBord, Philosophy, 2004 Christopher Hodgson, Philosophy, 2004 Larry Lawson, English, 2001 Further Graduate Mentoring: Faculty Member, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Italy (2002–present; text seminar leader, 2016, 2012, 2011, 2007, 2005, 2002) Teaching Mentor, Graduate Teaching Mentor Program, Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University Convener, Study Group in Continental Philosophy, Texas A&M University, 2012–present - Facilitate workshops with A&M faculty and visiting scholars. Workshop leaders have included: Keith Ansell-Pearson (Warwick University) Charles Bambach (UT Dallas) Jennifer Anne Bates (Duquesne University) Harris Bechtol (Sam Houston State University) Andrew Benjamin (Monash University/Kingston University) Karin de Boer (KU Leuven) Emily Brady (Texas A&M University) John Caputo (Syracuse University/Villanova University) Daniel Conway (Texas A&M University) Jessica Elkhayam (Sam Houston State University)Jane Kneller (Colorado State University) Claire Katz (Texas A&M University) Rebecca Kukla (Georgetown University, Kennedy Institute of Ethics) John McDermott (Texas A&M University) Michael Naas (DePaul University) Gregory Pappas (Texas A&M University) John Protevi (Louisiana State University) Luiz Rhoden (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos) Omar Rivera (Texas A&M University) Kristi Sweet (Texas A&M University) 22 Jamie Smith (Calvin College) Alejandro Vallega (University of Oregon) - Facilitate graduate student participation in organization/facilitation of local symposia and conferences. Events have included: Futures of Interpretation Symposium, 2019 North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics annual meeting, 2017 History of Philosophy Society annual meeting, 2016 Hannah Arendt Circle annual meeting, 2015 Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, 2013 Levinas Society Meeting, 2011 - Facilitate seminar that focuses on development of student research in continental philosophy. In this, led seminars: “Hegel’s Concept of World as World-history,” Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, September 2022 “Poor Thomas Aquinas. Interpretation and the Sacred,” Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, September 2021 “Hermeneutical Realism in Aesthetics,” Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, September 2020 “Fichte’s Subjective Idealism,” Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, December 2018 “Kant’s Copernican Turn,” Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, October 2018 “Derrida on survival, birth and death,” Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, November 2016 “Jaspers, Heidegger and the Limit Experience of Death,” Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, October 2016 “Kierkegaard and Derrida on the ‘Gift of Death,’” Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, September 2016 “Martin Heidegger’s Letter on Humanism,” (co-led, Zakary Fisher), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, October 2013 “Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction,” (co-led, Brittany Leckey), November 2012 23 “The Thing,” (co-led John McDermott), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, February 2012 Undergraduate Education Undergraduate Courses: Current Continental Philosophy Existentialism Nineteenth-century Philosophy (remote delivery) Nineteenth-century Philosophy Philosophy of Art Philosophy and Literature Social and Political Philosophy American Philosophy Introduction to Philosophy Contemporary Moral Issues Philosophical Autobiography (first year seminar) Core Humanities (first year seminar) Directed studies, honors contracts offered on various topics in continental European philosophy since Kant, topics in the history of philosophy, and related areas. UG Thesis Advising Chloe Breig, How the Values Promoted by 18th Century Transcendentalist Philosophy Have Affected the American Neo-Evangelical Church, LAUNCH Honors Thesis, 2023. International/Study Abroad Visiting Teacher, Summer Course, University of Tilburg, Department of Philosophy, Tilburg, Netherlands, July 2018 Berlin Academic Field Trip, a one-week study abroad program focused on art history offered in conjunction with Philosophy of Art course, 2013 Further Undergraduate Teaching Invited guest lectures, programs and organizations “Being Called,” Philosophy Club, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, February 2020 “The depiction of touch in Michelangelo and Caravaggio: some philosophical considerations,” Philosophy Club, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, March 2017 24 “Ethics as Carrying,” Philosophy Club, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, October 2016 “Human and animal,” Philosophy Club, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, October 2015 “Self-understanding and death; in memory of Scott Austin,” Philosophy Club, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, February 2015 “On the impetus to philosophize (wonder, languor, anxiety),” Cornerstone Lecture Series, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, October 2014 “Faith and reason,” invited guest lecture, Honors Dormitory Lecture Series, College Station, TX, March 2014 Text seminar leader, Levinas Talmudic Reading Symposium, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, February 2014 “Why I Am Against Ethics,” Cornerstone Course Lecture Series, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, October 2012 “Philosophy, Wonder, and Angst,” Cornerstone Lecture Series, October 2010 “Haiti, Hegel, and the Dialectic of Mastery and Servitude,” Philosophy Club, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, February 2010 “Philosophy Begins in Wonder,” Cornerstone Lecture Series, October 2009 “How Does Philosophical Inquiry Begin?,” Philosophy Club, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, January 2008 “The Hermeneutics of Suspicion,” Philosophy Club, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, October 2007 “From Knowledge to Meaning,” Philosophy Club, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, April 2006 “Postmodern Concepts of Justice and the Issue of Terror,” Philosophy Club, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, October 2003 “Marx, His Legacy, and the Conflict in Iraq,” Philosophy Club, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, March 2003 “The Riddle of Community,” Philosophy Club, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, November 2002 25 “Postmodernism and Atheism,” Agnostic and Atheistic Student Group, Texas &M University, College Station, TX, March 2002 Undergraduate Research advising, Directed studies, and invited Guest Class Lectures offered on various topics in continental philosophy and history of philosophy Service To the Profession External Program Review As department Head, facilitated Academic Program Review of the Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, 2016–17 Member, External Program Review Team, Academic Program Review of the Department of Philosophy, Texas State University, April 2016 External Grant Review Icelandic Research Fund, Fellowship application, Fall 2018 NEH Panelist, Scholarly Editions and Translations, Washington, D.C., March 2016 Grant proposal evaluator, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, 2015 NEH Panelist, Scholarly Editions and Translations, Washington, D.C., March 2011 Grant proposal evaluator, Fulbright Commission, 2012 Grant proposal evaluator, Earlhart Fellowship, 2012 External Tenure Review External Evaluator, Promotion to Professor Review (R1), 2023 External Assessor, Promotion to Professor review (Public Research, UK), 2022 External Evaluator, Promotion to Professor review (R2) 2022 External Evaluator, Promotion to Professor review (R1) 2021 Invited External Letter, Promotion to Professor review (SLAC), 2020 Invited External Letter, Promotion to Associate Professor review (SLAC), 2020 Invited External Letter, Promotion to Associate Professor review (M1), 2017 External Evaluator, Promotion to Associate Professor review (R1), 2015 26 External Referee Activity Book manuscript referee (for some presses, on multiple occasions): Spinger, Lexington Books, Cambridge University Press, Northwestern University Press, Routledge Press, The State University of New York Press, Bloomsbury Publishing, Rowman and Littlefield, Fordham University Press, and Indiana University Press. Journal manuscript referee (for some journals, on multiple occasions): Hegel Bulletin, Idealistic Studies, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Arendt Studies, International Yearbook of Hermeneutics, Ruch Filozoficzny, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, South African Journal of Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, South Central Review, Continental Philosophy Review, Southwest Philosophical Review, Epoché, Philosophy and Rhetoric Book series proposal referee: Bloomsbury Publishing, Springer Press Other: Book selection committee, Society of Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy, 2008–09 Advisory Board Positions Academic series and journals: Advisory Board, Contributions to Hermeneutics, Springer, 2023–present Advisory Board, Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology, 2021–present Advisory Board, International Yearbook of Hermeneutics, 2020–present Advisory Board, Journal of Continental Philosophy, 2020–present Advisory Board, Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2015–present Academic organizations: Advisory Board, Forschungsstelle für Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik (Center for Phenomenology and Hermeneutics), Institute for Philosophy, University of KoblenzLandau, 2020–present Advisory Board, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, 2017–present Planning Committee, International Hermeneutics Symposium, 2015–present Board of Former Directors, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, 2011–present President, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, 2003–16 Executive Committee, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, 2009– 2013 27 Secretary, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, 2005–2008 Summer Institute Organization Director, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, “Philosophy, Truth, and the Claims of Art,” Città di Castello, Italy, July 9–29, 2011 Conference Organization Author Meets Critics panel, Gert-Jan van der Heiden, The Voice of Misery: A Continental Philosophy of Testimony. North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Society Session at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, College Station, TX, October 2022 Reception, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, College Station, TX, October 2022 (co-sponsored by Epoché, a journal for the history of philosophy). Scholar’s panel, Walter Brogan. Ancient Philosophy Society, Society Session at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, College Station, TX, October 2022 (co-sponsored by Epoché, a journal for the history of philosophy). North American program co-organizer, International Hermeneutics Symposium, Freiburg, Germany, July 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic) North American program co-organizer, International Hermeneutics Symposium, Salzburg, Austria, July 2019 Co-host, program co-organizer “Hermeneutics, the Humanities, and the Future of Interpretation,” College Station, TX, February 2019 North American program organizer, annual meeting of the International Hermeneutics Symposium, Freiburg, Germany, July 2018 Program organizer, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics annual meeting, College Station, Texas, September 2016 Program co-organizer, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 2015 North American program organizer, annual meeting of the Hermeneutics Symposium, Freiburg, Germany, June 2014 Program consultant, annual meeting of the Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, 2013 28 Program committee member, Poetics v. Philosophy, conference co-sponsored by Hispanic Studies, Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, and Philosophy at Texas A&M University, 2013 Program organizer, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics session at the Annual Meeting of SPEP, 2012, 2014, 2016 Program committee member, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics session at the Annual Meeting of SPEP, 2006, 2008, 2014, 2016 Program committee member, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics Annual Meeting, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Submission referee for annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 2003 Assistant Director, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, 1996 Further Activity Comments in memoriam, John J. McDermott, Celebration of John J. McDermott, Texas A&M University, September 2019 Comments in memoriam, John J. McDermott, annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, State College, Pennsylvania, October 2018 Annual Directors Meeting, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 Panel moderator, “Chasing Al-Qaeda,” with General Wesley Clark and Governor Tom Ridge, Wiley Lecture Series, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, April 2010 Session chair, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics at Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, 2014, 2012, 2008 Session chair, annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, 2018, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2002 Session chair, Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Central Div., 2005 Villanova University Alumni Event Speaker, Invited speaker, Radio City Hall, New York, New York, 2005 Summaries for Bibliographie de la Philosophie, 2005, 2003, 2001 29 Fulbright Scholar Resource Advisor, Bonn, Germany, 1999 Faculty Adviser, Habitat for Humanity Student Trip, Villanova University, 1997 Founder, Philosophy Graduate Student Union, Villanova University, 1995 To Texas A&M University Member, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Search Committee, Summer–Fall 2023 Member (Representative of the College of Liberal Arts Department Heads), Department Head Council Steering Committee, Texas A&M University, Spring–Summer 2022 Member, Academic Program Review Panel, invited panelist, Office of the Provost professional development series, Texas A&M University, November 2017 Member, Undergraduate Minor in Museum Planning Committee, Texas A&M University, 2015–17 To the College of Arts and Sciences (formerly to the College of Liberal Arts, through Summer 2022) Member, Glasscock Center for Humanities Research Advisory Committee, Fall 2023– present Member, Seach Committee for faculty hire, Department of Global Languages and Cultures, Fall 2023–present Member, Executive Committee, 2014–2023 (2022–23, College of Arts and Sciences; 2014-2022, College of Liberal Arts) Member, Search Committee, Head of the Department of Sociology, 2020–21 College of Liberal Arts Strategic Planning Committee, Member, 2010–14 European Studies Doctoral Program, Planning Committee, Member 2004–05 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Service Award Ceremony, encomium for award winner John McDermott, April 2015 “Stranger Than Fiction? Truth and Art in the Shadow of Romanticism,” Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts Development Council Great Conversations Event, College Station, Texas, April 2009 30 Session coordinator and chair, “Reflections by Former Students,” Celebration of the Life and Work of John McDermott, College Station, Texas, March 2009 “Lost in Translation? European Philosophy in Emerson’s New World,” Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts Development Council Great Conversations Event, March 2008 In role as Head, 2015–2023 (selected) Manage annual salary, graduate programs, undergraduate programs, staff, and operating budget Manage faculty assessment processes (annual reviews, mid-term reviews, promotion to associate professor with tenure reviews, promotion to professor, post-tenure reviews) Manage hiring processes for tenure-track faculty, contingent faculty, and staff persons Facilitated Academic Program Review (indicated above) for Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, 2016–17 To the Department Leadership roles Associate Department Head, 2010–2012 Director of Graduate Studies (interim); Chair, Graduate Program Advisory Committee, 2005–06 Promotion and Tenure Committees Chair, Promotion and Tenure Review Subcommittee, 2012 Chair, Midterm Review Subcommittee, 2012 Other committee service Search Committee for faculty hires (2023–present); Chair, Honors and Awards Committee (2023–present, 2007–09); Rules Committee (2014); Faculty Annual Evaluation Advisory Committee (2012–14); Colloquium Committee (2012–14, Chair, 2002–05, 2002–03, 2005); Graduate Program Advisory Committee (2007–08); Steering Committee (2006–12, 2001–04); Comprehensive Examination Committee History (2006–07); Manuel Davenport Prize Selection Committee (2005); Hiring Committee (2001) To the Brazos Valley, Texas Vice President, Board of Directors, Brazos Valley Food Bank (2023–present) 31 Member, Executive Committee, Brazos Valley Food Bank (2023–present) Member, Ethics/Governance Committee, Brazos Valley Food Bank0 (2022–present) Member, Board of Directors, Brazos Valley Food Bank (2022–present) Professional memberships American Philosophical Association Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics Hegel Society of America North Texas Philosophical Association Dallas Area Society for European Inquiry (Dasein)