Education
University of Chicago Divinity School
PhD student in Theology, 09/2007-present
Oxford University, St Edmund Hall
DPhil candidate in Theology, 09/2006-08/2007 (degree incomplete)
Yale University
Visiting Assistant in Research, Religious Studies, 01/2007-05/2007
Oxford University, Mansfield College
Master of Philosophy in Theology, 10/2004-06/2006
Washington and Lee University
Bachelor of Arts with a major in Philosophy, summa cum laude, 09/1999-06/2003
Articles
"Derrida, Jacques (1930-2004)." The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (forthcoming).
"Ambivalence in Dionysius the Areopagite: The Limitations of a Liturgical Reading." Studia Patristica. Eds. F. Young, M. Edwards, P. Parvis. Leuven: Peeters (forthcoming).
Book Reviews
Review
of Peter Rollins, How (Not) to Speak of
God. Anglican Theological Review (forthcoming).
Review of William Charlton, Being Reasonable about Religion." Heythrop Journal (forthcoming).
Review of Don Cupitt, The Old Creed and the New. Reviews in Religion and Theology 14.4 (2007), pp. 582-5.
Presentations
Tense and Tension - Derrida and Dionysius
North American Patristics Society, 05/2008
The Unsettling Gift, of Love
University of Chicago Workshop in Contemporary European Philosophy, 03/2008
Ambivalence in Dionysius the Areopagite: The Limitations of a Liturgical Reading
Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies at the University of Oxford, 08/2007
Eschatological Apophaticism in Dionysius the Areopagite: On the Alterity of Tradition
Oxford University Patristics Seminar, 05/2007
The Complex Contexts of Dionysius the Areopagite
Third Annual Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Student Conference in Patristic Studies, 03/2007
Other Religions and the Future of Faith: A Derridean Eschatology
Annual meeting of the Society of the Study of Theology, 04/2006
Theology as Eschatological Hope: Pseudo-Denys and Jacques Derrida
King's College (London) Systematic Theology Seminar, 03/2006
Eschatological Apophaticism in Pseudo-Denys and Jacques Derrida
Oxford University Systematic Theology Seminar, 02/2006
Developing Discontinuity: Imperious Reason and the Broken Body in Origen's Allegorical Exegesis
Presented at the annual meeting of the Society of the Study of Theology, 03/2005
Awards
Theology Faculty Studentship
Stipend awarded by the Oxford University Faculty of Theology, 05/2006
Clarendon Fund Bursary
Awarded by Oxford University for full fees and maintenance, 03/2006
Overseas Research Student Award
Awarded by Universities UK for postgraduate study in the UK, 10/2004
Edward Dodd Prize
Awarded for the best honors thesis in philosophy at Washington and Lee, 05/2003
Phi Beta Kappa national honor society, 01/2003
Phi Eta Sigma national honor society, 07/2001
Work Experience
Visiting Instructor, Washington and Lee UniversityInvited to teach one session of a class on mysticism led by Prof. Alexandra Brown, 04/2007
Research Assistant, Oxford, England
Analyzed and obtained resources relevant to the research of Dr. Morwenna Ludlow, then lecturer in Patristics at Oxford University, and commented upon a chapter of a book in progress, 07/2005
PricewaterhouseCoopers, London, England
Analyst in the Business Recovery Services (Insurance) department, 06/2003-09/2004
