Publications & Talks

2026* “Michel Foucault and the Philosophy of Religion,” The Foucauldian Mind, (Daniele Lorenzini, editor) New York, NY: Routledge Press, “Philosophical Minds” series.

2024*    Co-editor (with Niki Kasumi Clements), Foucault’s Confessions, Columbia University Press (under review)

2023*    The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other: Spiritual Exercises and the Politics of Self-overcoming, Columbia University Press (under contract)

2021-2025 Co-organizer (with Niki Kasumi Clements): Foucault and Religious Studies Seminar, The American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting 2021-2025; an interdisciplinary, five-year seminar devoted to exploring the intersection of Religious Studies and the work of Michel Foucault.

2023 “On the Care of the Self and the Care of the Other,” Western Carolina Department of Philosophy and Religion, Spring 2023 Visiting Scholar Lecture Series

2022     “From the Scale of Despotism to the Scale of Freedom: Violence and Perfectionism in the Non-violent Tradition,” Albion College Faculty Lecture Series, March 24, 2022.

2021     English edition editor, translator: Michel Foucault, Speaking the Truth About Oneself (Dire vrai sur soi-même): Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto 1982, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, October 2021  

2021     “Georges Friedmann: Marxism, Technological Change, and the Great Disequilibrium,” The Radical Philosophy Association, Radical Philosophy Hour; August 2, 2021

2021     Review: The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, (June 2021)

2020     “The Lonely Goddess: Religion, Memory, and History in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, The Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit; December 2, 2020.

2018     “Dr. King and the Life of the Question,” The Political Theology Network, MLK 50 Symposium (April 5, 2018). (https://politicaltheology.com/dr-king-and-the-life-of-the-question/)

2017     “The Practice of Dignity: The Care of the Self, Relations of Power, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott;” The University of Chicago Divinity School, Foucault and Religion, March 10, 2017.

2016     Translator: Raoul Moati, Levinas and the Night of Being: An Introduction to Totality and Infinity, New York: Fordham University Press, October 2016.

2015     “Dewey as Genealogist: Pragmatism, the ‘Genetic Method’ and Philosophical Reconstruction,” American Academy of Religion 2015 Annual Meeting, The Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group; November 21, 2015.

2015     “There’s Cheating and There’s Cheating: Foucault, True Speech, and Strategic Play,” The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, (Dec. 2015) 83 (4):1084-1107.

2014     “Ender as Parrhesiast: True Speech, Difference & Empathy in Orson Scott Card’s Speaker for the Dead,” American Academy of Religion 2014 Annual Meeting, combined session of The Arts, Literature, and Religion Section, Mormon Studies Group, New Religious Movements Group, Religion and Popular Culture Group, and Religion and Science Fiction Group, panel “Extraterrestrial Mormonism: Orson Scott Card’s Ender Series and Battlestar Galactica;” November 23, 2014.

2012     “Foucault, Ritual Speech & the Analytic of Resistance,” American Academy of Religion 2012 Annual Meeting, Ritual Studies Group, panel “Domains and Boundaries: Ritual and Technology, Game, Play, and Art;” November 19, 2012.

2009     “William James, Belief and Identity,” Northwestern University graduate student conference: Religion and Identity, Evanston, IL; April 25, 2009.