Colby College (Waterville, Maine, USA)

PL 338 A: Philosophy of Language
Introduction to significant philosophical texts on language, including units on reference, truth, fiction, and the relationship between language and thought. Emphasis on the analytic tradition.

University of Maine at Farmington (Farmington, Maine, USA)

PHI 101: Contemporary Moral Problems
Introduction to the study of ethical theories with an emphasis on making connections to current ethical and political debates.
PHI 180: Music and Philosophy
Introduction to significant philosophical texts about music in order to facilitate thinking about music in terms of its composition, performance, meaning, ethical and political implications, and even its ontology.
PHI 210/ENG 277: Philosophy of Language
Introduction to significant philosophical texts on language, including units on reference, truth, fiction, and the relationship between language and thought.
PHI 220: Constructing our World, Constructing Ourselves
Third in a sequence of four courses on the history of western philosophy. A study of post-Kantian philosophy of the 19th century, with particular emphasis on Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche.
PHI 377: Postmodernisms
I designed this course, which begins with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and a consideration of the limits of philosophy itself. We then took our time with writings by Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Barthes, Sontag, Spivak, and Cixous, emphasizing an idea of postmodernism as synonymous with an ongoing and self-critical project, both ethical and epistemological, of thinking difference itself.
PHI 397: Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time
Independent study. I designed this study of Heidegger’s text, situating it within its historical and philosophical context.
PHI 397: Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Independent study. I designed this slow study of the entirety of Hegel’s Phenomenology, emphasizing connections to 20th century thought and spending time looking at current and ongoing conversations concerning Hegel’s analysis of Antigone.
PHI 397: Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception
Independent study. I designed this study of Merleau-Ponty’s work, contextualizing it in the history of phenomenology while reading along with it texts by feminist and post-colonial philosophers responding to Merleau-Ponty’s thought.
MUS 149: Composing Music
I designed this introduction to music theory and aural skills for majors and non-majors, with an emphasis on exploring what counts as a composition.
MUS 177: Musicianship through Songwriting
I designed this course for music majors and non-majors, studying music theory, aural skills, and composition. Highly individualized based on student backgrounds, interests, and needs.
MUS 177: Laptop Orchestra
I designed this study of electronic music, with a focus on using the open source software Pure Data to teach students the theory and technique of sound synthesis and digital signal processing. We also discussed the history of electronic music and practiced its performance, culminating in a public concert at the end of the semester.
MUS 202: Theory and Aural Skills II
Independent study. Second course in the Theory and Aural Skills sequence for music majors.
HON 297: Feminism and Philosophy of Language
Independent study. I designed this introduction to structuralism and post-structuralism and their implementation in the work of thinkers like Kristeva and Cixous.