University of Detroit Mercy

Faculty Member, Philosophy

Professor of Philosophy

College of Liberal Arts & Education

About

I teach philosophy at the University of Detroit Mercy.  I earned my Master's and Ph.D. at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. I taught at several schools in Pittsburgh and central Florida before arriving in Detroit.

I regularly teach introductory philosophy, ethics, social and political philosophy, person and society, existentialism, media critique, phenomenology and architecture, and occasionally introductory logic. I have has also taught thematic courses on friendship, the good life, appearance and reality, and have directed readings on Husserl, Heidegger, Nietzsche, continental philosophy, postmodernism, the phenomenology of place, and the topic of dwelling. My scholarly research has centered on the phenomenological method and the problem of expression, and I have published articles on Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre. In addition, I am interested in the actual practice of phenomenology, and have undertaken several investigations of the experience of media, lived space and the body. I also maintain an abiding interest in social and political questions.

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