Publications

Full curriculum vitae available here.

Articles

“Absorption, Contemplation, and Affection: Benjamin, Adorno, and Spinoza on Critical Aesthetics.” Dialogue: Journal of Phi Sigma Tau, Vol. 62, no. 1, October 2019, 58-64. https://philpapers.org/archive/HILACA-6.pdf. (Refereed).
“the purpose of Purpose.” The Exhibitionist, Vol 2, no. 1, January 2014, 9-12. https://thexzbt.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/2014-1.pdf. (Refereed).

Book Reviews

Police Brutality: A Study of Police Culture in the US, by Steve Martinot (Xlibris US, 2024) in Socialism and Democracy, Forthcoming [2026].
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, by Antony Loewenstein (New York: Verso Books, 2024) in Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies, Vol. 4, no. 2, July 2025, 146-52. Dedicated to Margaret Kay-Alana Calhoun Turner; from the river to the sea, Kay.

Article Contributions

Peter Trnka, “Incanting Ghosts: A Letter from the Editor-in-Chief,” Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies, Vol. 4, no. 2, July 2025, 1-16, quoted about epistemicide and Kay’s wrongful death interacting with police, 11-13. https://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/JU/article/view/2914/2355.

Interviews

“Peri-Phenomenology as Meta-Ethical Ground: In Conversation with Ed Casey on Method, Eidetics/Knowing, Commitment, Interembodiment, Multiplicity as the Univocity of Being, and Immanent, Inside-Out Affect.” Radical Philosophy Hour, Radical Philosophy Association, Online, Forthcoming [September 25, 2025].

Conference Presentations

“Foucault on Defanged Discourse and Expressive Materialism.” 123^rd Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association [APA], Poster Session, APA, Chicago, IL, Forthcoming [February 18-21, 2026]. (Refereed).
“Building the Material Practicum of Philosophical Literacy: Modeling, Rigor, Pacing, Tone, and Transparency.” Educational Excellence Week 2025, Center for Educational Excellence, Tarleton State University (TSU), Stephenville, TX, April 14, 2025. (Refereed).
“A Sketch of Foucault on Defanged Discourse: Auto-Anesthetizing Revelation, Prophecy, Intellection, and Intuitive Ineffability.” “Philosophy of Religion and War”: 7^th Annual Weatherford College [WC] Philosophy of Religion Conference, WC, Weatherford, TX, April 12, 2025. (Refereed).
“Conviction, [Enlightenment], Self-Respect, Faith, and Grace: Moral Eidetic-Noetic Intuition in Socrates, Kant, Didion, James, and Dewey.” 54^th Annual North Texas Philosophical Association [NTPA] 2025 Conference, NTPA, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, March 29, 2025. (Refereed).
“What a Body Can Do: Subject-Object Distinctions as Self-Estrangement in Horkheimer, Adorno, and Early Marx.” 75^th Meeting of the New Mexico-Texas [NMTX] Philosophical Society, NMTX Philosophical Society, Houston Community College [HCC], Houston, TX, March 28, 2025. (Refereed).
“Self-Forgiveness, Enmeshed Being, and Wellbeing through Loving Perception.” 36^th Annual NAGPS [National Association of Graduate-Professional Students] National Conference: “Teaching to Transform: Empowering Students to Succeed through Ownership and Advocacy [TT:ESSOA],” NAGPS, in partnership with Grad Student Action Network (GSAN), Online, February 25, 2023. (Organizer).
“The Ordeals: Trial by Incarnation as Religious-Existential-Phenomenological Pedagogy.” 36^th Annual NAGPS National Conference: “TT: ESSOA,” NAGPS, in partnership with GSAN, Online, February 24, 2023. (Organizer).
“Estrangement in Dialectic of Enlightenment: A Brief Critique of the Subject-Object Distinction.” UHD’s [University of Houston-Downtown] “Back to the Sources”: 2018 History, Humanities, & Languages [HHL] Student Research Conference, UHD, Houston, TX, December 3, 2018. (Refereed).
“On the Necessity of Erroneous Opinions to the Vitality of Knowledge: A Response to John Stuart Mill.” UHD’s “Back to the Sources”: 2017 HHL Student Research Conference, UHD, Houston, TX, December 4, 2017. (Refereed).

Conference Proceedings

Moderator, “Temporality Otherwise.” 63^rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy [SPEP], SPEP, Virtual, October 17-18 and 24-25, 2025, Forthcoming. (Invited).
Moderator, Session II, Panel A. 75^th Meeting of the NMTX Philosophical Society, NMTX Philosophical Society, HCC, Houston, TX, March 28, 2025. (Presenter).
Commentator, Igrek, Apple, “The Will to Power as an Oppositional Force against Authoritarianism.” 75^th Meeting of the NMTX Philosophical Society, NMTX Philosophical Society, HCC, Houston, TX, March 28, 2025. (Presenter).
Coordinator. 36^th Annual NAGPS National Conference: “TT: ESSOA.” NAGPS, in partnership with GSAN for a nine-guest speaker panel on disability justice, in addition to NAGPS programming, Online, February 24-25, 2023. (Organizer).

Invited Lectures

“Language as Medium and Mediums as Languages in John Dewey’s Esthetics.” ART 3321: Life Drawing, TSU, Stephenville, TX, September 29 - October 3, 2025. (Invited).

Poetry

“Eschatology.” Single poem. Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies, Vol. 4, no. 2, July 2025, 119-20. (Refereed).
“the Night.” Single poem. The Exhibitionist, Vol. 3, no. 1, January 2015, 15. (Refereed).
“Thoughts from a High School Senior.” Three poems. The Exhibitionist, Vol. 2, no. 4, October 2014, 14-15. (Refereed).
“Surrender.” Single poem. The Exhibitionist, Vol. 2, no. 3, July 2014, 11. Published contemporaneously with “Mission 3:16” cover image. (Refereed).
“age vitam.” Single poem. The Exhibitionist, Vol. 2, no. 2, April 2014, 35. (Refereed).

Theatre

Dr. Gimby, Don Sedgwick, Prosecutor Meredith, Hughie McDonald, Editor Curran, and Photographer, in The Angelina Project. UNT [University of North Texas] University Players, Denton, TX, November 2015. (Refereed).

Visual Art

Three pieces. Watercolor ink on Bristol vellum. HOPE. Capital Culture House [Madrid, Spain], Virtual, March 22-31, 2022. Holy Terrain moniker. https://capitalculturehouse.org/virtual/. (Refereed).
“Mission 3:16.” Cover. The Exhibitionist, Vol. 2, no. 3, July 2014. (Refereed).