Areas of Expertise
- queer and trans studies
- race theory
- psychoanalytic theory
- twentieth century French theory
Education
- Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Philosophy, 1994
- M.A., Pennsylvania State University, Philosophy, 1991
- B.A., University of Notre Dame, Program of Liberal Studies (“Great Books Program”), 1988
Recent Research
After seven years as department chair, I am finally completing a manuscript, currently entitled Whiteness in The Door of No Return,, that was solicited by Duke University Press in 2020. The text weaves the magisterial work of Dionne Brand’s Map of Door of No Return with Frank Wilderson’s damning Afropessimist indictment to develop an ontological account of Whiteness.
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Books
For further publications focusing on a range of themes and intersections in the fields of queer theory, race theory, feminist theory, and twentieth century French philosophy (especially Bataille, Foucault, Irigaray, and Lacan), please see my website on academia.edu.
- Queering Freedom (Indiana UP: 2006)
- Reading Bataille Now, Editor (Indiana UP: 2006) (2007 Choice Outstanding Title)
- Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race & Ethics (Columbia UP: 2015)
