Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania

SCHOLARSHIP

 Journal Articles

“Identification with Nature: What It Is and Why It Matters,” Ethics and the Environment (accepted for publication).

 “Predators and Prey: On Hunting and Human Identity,” invited essay to be included in Contemporary Hunting and Fishing in Folklore and Popular Culture, ed. Dennis Cutchins and Eric Eliason.“

 Gestalt-Ontologie und Identifikation mit der Natur: Über Arne Naess und die Philosophie der Deep Ecology,” Natur und Kultur: Transdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für ökologische Nachhaltigkeit 7, no. 2 (2006): 3-23.  German translation of “Gestalt Ontology and Identification with Nature: A Study of Arne Naess and the Philosophy of Deep Ecology.”

 “Arne Naess and the Task of Gestalt Ontology,” Environmental Ethics 26, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 21-35.

 “Deep Ecology and Phenomenology,” Environmental Philosophy 1, no. 2 (Fall 2004): 20-7.

 “’Here I Stand’: An Interview with Arne Naess,” Environmental Philosophy 1, no. 2 (Fall 2004): 6-19.

 “The Self of Stars and Stone: Ecofeminism, Deep Ecology and the Ecological Self,” The Trumpeter 19, no.3 (2003): 31-45.

 “Gaia and Il y a: Reflections on the Face of the Earth,” Symposium 7, no. 2 (Fall 2003): 173-83.

  “Arne Naess, Val Plumwood, and Deep Ecological Subjectivity: A Contribution to the ‘Deep Ecology-Ecofeminism Debate’,” Ethics and the Environment 7, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 24-38.

 “Facing Nature: Levinas Beyond the Human,” Philosophy Today 44, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 51-9.

 
Books

Interrogating Ethics: Embodying the Good in Merleau-Ponty, ed. James Hatley, Janice Maclane and Christian Diehm, (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2006).

 Book Chapters

“Facing Nature: Levinas Beyond the Human,” in Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments, vol. 4, ed. Claire Katz (London: Routlege, 2004), pp. 176-87.  (Reprint)

 “Natural Disasters,” in Eco-Phenomenology: Getting Back to the Earth Itself, ed. Ted Toadvine and Charles S. Brown (Albany: SUNY Press, 2003), 171-85.

 
Scholarly Awards

Visiting Scholar, Pace Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies, Pace University, New York, New York, Fall 2002.

Grant awarded to conduct research and direct faculty colloquia on the subject of ecofeminism and deep ecology, sponsored by the Pace Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies.

 
Book Reviews

Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas, ed. Tina Chanter, APA Newsletters 3, no. 2 (Spring 2004): 137-8.

“Politics and Worldviews: Review of John M. Meyer’s Political Nature,” Philosophy and Geography 6, no. 1 (February 2003): 123-30.

 
Presentations

“Hunting: A Sport on the Decline,” invited participant on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation program, February 2, 2006.

 “Transcending Natural History: Levinas and Other-Than-Human Animals,” 6^th biennial meeting of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, University of Oregon, June 2005.

 Panel discussion on “Animals in the Moral Community,” Villanova University, February 2005.

 “Gestalt Ontology and the Task of Deep Ecology,” Colby College Philosophy Colloquium series, Colby College, February 2005.

 “The New Discipline of Environmental Ethics,” Pottstown Unitarian Universalist Church, November 2004.

 “Effacing Nature: Levinas’s Erasure of the Other-than-Human,” 7^th annual meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Boston, November 2003.

 “Animals, Ethics and the Law,” Student Animal Legal Defense Fund Colloquium, Villanova University School of Law, November 2002.

 “Reflections on the Face of the Earth,” 7th annual meeting of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Association, San Francisco, July 2001.

 Panel discussion on “Eating as a Moral Issue,” Villanova University, October 2000.

 Panel discussion on “Men and Feminism: Men Have Their Say on the ‘F Word’,” Villanova University, September 2000.

 
Work in Progress

“Getting Past Anthropocentrism”

 “Is Deep Ecology Anthropocentric?”