My main area of research is seventeenth-century philosophy, particularly the work of Baruch Spinoza. I also have strong secondary research interests in post-Kantian Continental philosophy, and in twentieth-century French philosophy especially. I defended my dissertation (Spinoza’s Substance Monism Contextualized / Le monisme spinoziste de la substance en contexte) at the Université Paris 8.
The Solmsen Fellowship at the IRH of UW-Madison will support my research project: ‘Spinoza and the Philosophy of War.’
My work has been published in the Revista Seiscentos, the Blackwell Companion to Spinoza, Crisis and Critique, Modern Judaism, and the Journal of Modern Philosophy; work will shortly appear in the Australasian Philosophical Review and The Deleuzian Mind.
In the cottage garden
(Spinozahuis, Rijsnburg)
With Charles Ramond, I am editor of Spinoza in Twenty-First Century American and French Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2019).
With Stephen Howard, I am editor of The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy (forthcoming).
With Charles Ramond, I launched the research seminar: ‘Spinoza à Paris 8’ — a forum for international and interdisciplinary discussion of Spinoza since 2014. Recordings of talks are available online. In 2016 with Paris 1, ENS Lyon, and Paris Est Créteil, we hosted the conference: ‘Spinoza France États-Unis’.
With Deborah Goldgaber and Hannah Bacon, I organized the 2024 international bilingual conference at LSU: ‘French and Francophone Philosophy Today’.