Education
PhD in philosophy, Harvard University (expected....at some point)
Dissertation committee: Selim Berker, Susanna Siegel, Gina Schouten, Lucas Stanczyk
MPhil in the history and philosophy of science and medicine, first class with distinction on my dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2016
B.A., summa cum laude with high honors, philosophy major and German minor, Dartmouth College, 2014
Visiting Student, Universität Potsdam, Philosophie und Germanistik, March-August 2013
Publications
“The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" in the British Journal of Aesthetics
“Aestheticism" in the Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Art
“Ladies in Waiting,” The Best American Magazine Writing 2017, edited by Sid Holt. Columbia University Press, 2017.
Books
All Things Are Too Small, forthcoming from Metropolitan (Holt) U.S. and Virago U.K.
Awards and Honors
2024: Winner of the 2023 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
2022: Finalist for the Kukula Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction Book Reviewing
2021: Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism
2020: Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Graduate Fellow 2020-2021
2019: Distinction in Teaching for Culture and Belief 31, “Saints, Heretics, and Atheists: An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion”
2019: Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Professional Development Fund Award to attend “The Morality of Discrimination” summer course at the Central European University
2019: American Philosophical Association Graduate Stipend to present at the Pacific Division Meeting
2019: Distinction in Teaching for Philosophy 34, “Existentialism in Literature and Film”
2019: The Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essay in the English Language, $10,000 awarded to a Harvard graduate student in any field for a scholarly essay of high literary merit, for my essay on how Arendt can help us read Heidegger as an ethicist
2019: Finalist for the 2018 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, the National Book Critics Circle’s prize for literary criticism
2018: Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference Grant (with Tess McNulty) for “Bad Romance,” a conference about the ethics of sex and desire
2017: The Bechtel Prize, awarded to the best graduate essay on a philosophical topic by the Harvard philosophy department
2017: Finalist for a National Magazine Award in the essays/criticism category
2017: Finalist for the 2016 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, the National Book Critics Circle’s prize for literary crtiicism
2015-2016: British Society for the History of Science Master’s Degree Bursary
2015-2016: James B. Reynolds Fellowship, awarded to me by the Dartmouth Committee on Graduate Fellowships to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge
2014: Phi Beta Kappa early inductee, awarded to top twenty students in class
2014: The Francis W. Gramlich Philosophy Prize, awarded to two senior philosophy majors demonstrating excellence in the field by the Dartmouth philosophy department
2014: The Stanley Prize, awarded to the most original essay on a topic in English literature by the Dartmouth English department, awarded to me for my essay on Levinas and Marie de France
2014: The Academy of American Poets prize, honorable mention for a short collection of my poetry, awarded by the Dartmouth English department
2014: James B. Reynolds Fellowship (declined funding), awarded to me by the Dartmouth Committee on Graduate Fellowships to pursue postgraduate study abroad
2013: German Essay prize, awarded to the best German essay of the year by the Dartmouth German department, awarded to me for my essay on Kafka and Heidegger
2013: James O. Freedman Presidential Scholar
2012: Richard Eberhart Literary Contest, hosted by Alpha Delta fraternity, First Prize for short fiction
2012: Two German Book Awards, awarded to the top student in each German class by the Dartmouth German department, for my performance in “German 1” and “The German Novel”
2012: Rufus Choate Scholar
Presentations (* for invited, refereed otherwise)
2022
“Maybe It’s Maybelline, Maybe It’s a Social Primary Good,” Stanford Research Workshop in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts, February*
2020
“Maybe It’s Maybelline, Maybe It’s a Social Primary Good,” (on personal beauty and its connection to the philosophy of love and sex), 2020 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, January*
2019
“Only an Artwork Can Save Us: Heidegger on Anxious Art,” European Philosophy Workshop, Harvard University, December 2019*
“Only an Artwork Can Save Us: Heidegger on Anxious Art,” Philosophy of Law Workshop, Dartmouth College, September 2019*
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” Truth, Power, and Democracy workshop series, Dartmouth College, August 2019*
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” 2019 Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association symposium session, April 2019
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” Art and Ethics Workshop, University of Southampton, January 2019
2018
“Notes Towards Aesthetic Constitutivism,” Columbia/New York University Philosophy Graduate Conference, Columbia University, March 2018
2017
“Fiction as Memorialization in Lerner and Sebald,” Fictions of History, sixth annual conference in critical theory, Graduate Center at CUNY, May 2017
“Attention as Moral Modeling in Iris Murdoch's Visual Ethics” The Concept of Attention in Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch, Queen Mary, University of London, February 2017
Comments
2019
Jon Baskin, “Agonal Spirits: On Thinking in a Democratic Public,” Truth, Power, and Democracy, Dartmouth College, June 2019
Alva Noë, “Art and the In-Between,” Aesthetic Normativity: A Workshop,” Harvard University, May 2019
Samantha Matherne, “Are All Artists Phenomenologists? Perspectives from Edith Landmann-Kalischer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty,” Boston Phenomenology Circle symposium on phenomenology and aesthetics, Boson University, April 2019
Conferences Organized
2019
With David Plunkett and Jamie Fritz, “Truth, Power, and Democracy,” workshop series at Dartmouth College, Summer 2019
With Tess McNulty, “Bad Romance: the Ethics of Love, Sex, and Desire,” Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Mar. 29-30
Teaching Experience
2019
Teaching Fellow for Professor Jeffrey McDonough, Culture and Belief 31, “Saints, Heretics, and Atheists: An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion”
Received a Distinction in Teaching prize
2018
Teaching Fellow for Professor Sean Kelly, Philosophy 34, “Existentialism in Literature and Film”
Received a Distinction in Teaching prize
Additional Employment
Contributing Editor at The Point, November 2020-
Fellow at the Truth, Power, and Democracy project at Dartmouth College, run by professors Russel Muirhead and David Plunkett, Summer 2019
Copy editor for Professor Jeff McDonough, Winter 2018-Spring 2019
Research assistant for Professor Sean Kelly, translating two of Heidegger’s heretofore untranslated lectures on Augustine from German into English, Summer 2018
Assistant literary editor of The New Republic, where I was personal assistant to Leon Wieseltier, Summer 2014-Winter 2015
Research assistant and copy editor at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Summer 2013
Literary blog intern for the New York Daily News, Spring and Summer 2013
Editorial intern for Slate Magazine, Fall 2010-Spring 2011
Languages
French, proficient, speaking and reading
German, proficient, speaking and reading
Professional Organizations
American Philosophical Association
National Book Critics Circle
Professional Service
Article referee for Noûs
Article referee for the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
PhD in philosophy, Harvard University (expected....at some point)
Dissertation committee: Selim Berker, Susanna Siegel, Gina Schouten, Lucas Stanczyk
MPhil in the history and philosophy of science and medicine, first class with distinction on my dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2016
B.A., summa cum laude with high honors, philosophy major and German minor, Dartmouth College, 2014
Visiting Student, Universität Potsdam, Philosophie und Germanistik, March-August 2013
Publications
“The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" in the British Journal of Aesthetics
“Aestheticism" in the Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Art
“Ladies in Waiting,” The Best American Magazine Writing 2017, edited by Sid Holt. Columbia University Press, 2017.
Books
All Things Are Too Small, forthcoming from Metropolitan (Holt) U.S. and Virago U.K.
Awards and Honors
2024: Winner of the 2023 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
2022: Finalist for the Kukula Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction Book Reviewing
2021: Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism
2020: Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Graduate Fellow 2020-2021
2019: Distinction in Teaching for Culture and Belief 31, “Saints, Heretics, and Atheists: An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion”
2019: Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Professional Development Fund Award to attend “The Morality of Discrimination” summer course at the Central European University
2019: American Philosophical Association Graduate Stipend to present at the Pacific Division Meeting
2019: Distinction in Teaching for Philosophy 34, “Existentialism in Literature and Film”
2019: The Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essay in the English Language, $10,000 awarded to a Harvard graduate student in any field for a scholarly essay of high literary merit, for my essay on how Arendt can help us read Heidegger as an ethicist
2019: Finalist for the 2018 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, the National Book Critics Circle’s prize for literary criticism
2018: Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference Grant (with Tess McNulty) for “Bad Romance,” a conference about the ethics of sex and desire
2017: The Bechtel Prize, awarded to the best graduate essay on a philosophical topic by the Harvard philosophy department
2017: Finalist for a National Magazine Award in the essays/criticism category
2017: Finalist for the 2016 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, the National Book Critics Circle’s prize for literary crtiicism
2015-2016: British Society for the History of Science Master’s Degree Bursary
2015-2016: James B. Reynolds Fellowship, awarded to me by the Dartmouth Committee on Graduate Fellowships to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge
2014: Phi Beta Kappa early inductee, awarded to top twenty students in class
2014: The Francis W. Gramlich Philosophy Prize, awarded to two senior philosophy majors demonstrating excellence in the field by the Dartmouth philosophy department
2014: The Stanley Prize, awarded to the most original essay on a topic in English literature by the Dartmouth English department, awarded to me for my essay on Levinas and Marie de France
2014: The Academy of American Poets prize, honorable mention for a short collection of my poetry, awarded by the Dartmouth English department
2014: James B. Reynolds Fellowship (declined funding), awarded to me by the Dartmouth Committee on Graduate Fellowships to pursue postgraduate study abroad
2013: German Essay prize, awarded to the best German essay of the year by the Dartmouth German department, awarded to me for my essay on Kafka and Heidegger
2013: James O. Freedman Presidential Scholar
2012: Richard Eberhart Literary Contest, hosted by Alpha Delta fraternity, First Prize for short fiction
2012: Two German Book Awards, awarded to the top student in each German class by the Dartmouth German department, for my performance in “German 1” and “The German Novel”
2012: Rufus Choate Scholar
Presentations (* for invited, refereed otherwise)
2022
“Maybe It’s Maybelline, Maybe It’s a Social Primary Good,” Stanford Research Workshop in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts, February*
2020
“Maybe It’s Maybelline, Maybe It’s a Social Primary Good,” (on personal beauty and its connection to the philosophy of love and sex), 2020 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, January*
2019
“Only an Artwork Can Save Us: Heidegger on Anxious Art,” European Philosophy Workshop, Harvard University, December 2019*
“Only an Artwork Can Save Us: Heidegger on Anxious Art,” Philosophy of Law Workshop, Dartmouth College, September 2019*
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” Truth, Power, and Democracy workshop series, Dartmouth College, August 2019*
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” 2019 Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association symposium session, April 2019
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” Art and Ethics Workshop, University of Southampton, January 2019
2018
“Notes Towards Aesthetic Constitutivism,” Columbia/New York University Philosophy Graduate Conference, Columbia University, March 2018
2017
“Fiction as Memorialization in Lerner and Sebald,” Fictions of History, sixth annual conference in critical theory, Graduate Center at CUNY, May 2017
“Attention as Moral Modeling in Iris Murdoch's Visual Ethics” The Concept of Attention in Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch, Queen Mary, University of London, February 2017
Comments
2019
Jon Baskin, “Agonal Spirits: On Thinking in a Democratic Public,” Truth, Power, and Democracy, Dartmouth College, June 2019
Alva Noë, “Art and the In-Between,” Aesthetic Normativity: A Workshop,” Harvard University, May 2019
Samantha Matherne, “Are All Artists Phenomenologists? Perspectives from Edith Landmann-Kalischer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty,” Boston Phenomenology Circle symposium on phenomenology and aesthetics, Boson University, April 2019
Conferences Organized
2019
With David Plunkett and Jamie Fritz, “Truth, Power, and Democracy,” workshop series at Dartmouth College, Summer 2019
With Tess McNulty, “Bad Romance: the Ethics of Love, Sex, and Desire,” Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Mar. 29-30
Teaching Experience
2019
Teaching Fellow for Professor Jeffrey McDonough, Culture and Belief 31, “Saints, Heretics, and Atheists: An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion”
Received a Distinction in Teaching prize
2018
Teaching Fellow for Professor Sean Kelly, Philosophy 34, “Existentialism in Literature and Film”
Received a Distinction in Teaching prize
Additional Employment
Contributing Editor at The Point, November 2020-
Fellow at the Truth, Power, and Democracy project at Dartmouth College, run by professors Russel Muirhead and David Plunkett, Summer 2019
Copy editor for Professor Jeff McDonough, Winter 2018-Spring 2019
Research assistant for Professor Sean Kelly, translating two of Heidegger’s heretofore untranslated lectures on Augustine from German into English, Summer 2018
Assistant literary editor of The New Republic, where I was personal assistant to Leon Wieseltier, Summer 2014-Winter 2015
Research assistant and copy editor at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Summer 2013
Literary blog intern for the New York Daily News, Spring and Summer 2013
Editorial intern for Slate Magazine, Fall 2010-Spring 2011
Languages
French, proficient, speaking and reading
German, proficient, speaking and reading
Professional Organizations
American Philosophical Association
National Book Critics Circle
Professional Service
Article referee for Noûs
Article referee for the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy