Education

• BA, English Literature, Yale University, 2006

Dissertation

"In Another Make Me Understood": Reading and Writing in George Herbert's Temple

Research Interests

• 17th century devotional poetry
• Hermeneutics
• Ordinary language philosophy
• Religious ethics

Teaching

• Religion and Modern Fiction
• Theology, Ethics, and Medicine
• Business, Ethics, and Society
• Religion after Jefferson (a course on religion in public life)

Selected Conference Presentations

• "Visionary Experience in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead" (American Academy of Religion, 2014)
• "Why Ecclesiology Needs Realism: Or, the Truth About Stanley Hauerwas" (Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, 2014)
• "The Difficulty of Translation": Habermas on the 'Content' and 'Kernel' of Religious Language (UVa graduate colloquium in Scripture, Interpretation, and Practice)