I was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. I attended Westminster University, a small, liberal arts university in Salt Lake City.
I was a finalist for the Fulbright US–UK Partner Award and completed my MA in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick in 2019.
At Warwick, my MA dissertation examined the question of desire and psychoanalysis across Michel Foucault's oeuvre. I argued that the Lacanian conception of desire is not susceptible to Foucault's later critique of psychoanalysis and in fact vindicates his earlier position, advanced in Les mots et les choses (The Order of Things), that psychoanalysis functions as a counter-…
I was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. I attended Westminster University, a small, liberal arts university in Salt Lake City.
I was a finalist for the Fulbright US–UK Partner Award and completed my MA in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick in 2019.
At Warwick, my MA dissertation examined the question of desire and psychoanalysis across Michel Foucault's oeuvre. I argued that the Lacanian conception of desire is not susceptible to Foucault's later critique of psychoanalysis and in fact vindicates his earlier position, advanced in Les mots et les choses (The Order of Things), that psychoanalysis functions as a counter-science that exposes the genesis and structure of subjectivity rather than inheriting classical conceptions of the subject. This research proved formative, furnishing the impetus for my doctoral project on the ontological concepts of limit and relation in Jacques Lacan and Georges Bataille.
My thesis, Thresholds of Psychoanalysis and Inner Experience: The Ontology of Relation and Limit after Georges Bataille and Jacques Lacan, is a work in continental ontology and psychoanalytic theory that takes its orientation from two thinkers whose thought traverses philosophy, literature, anthropology, metapsychology, and clinical practice. It intervenes in prominent post-Lacanian debates on the relation and limit between thinking and being, arguing that while this relation and this limit are ontologically undecidable, a knowledge of them is nonetheless possible on the basis of practical and theoretical constructions.
I began my doctoral training in the Department of Philosophy at Newcastle University in 2021 and passed my viva voce examination in 2025. I currently am a Lecturer in Philosophy at Newcastle University.
