I work in 19th-century European philosophy, moral psychology, and ethics. My work in each of these areas explores how our emotional lives are formed and sustained, as well as how emotional experiences of various kinds can facilitate or hinder agency, self-formation, and flourishing. 

I am Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at California State University, San Bernardino.

You can find a selection of my research here.

​My monograph, The Problem of Affective Nihilism in Nietzsche,​ presents a novel interpretation of Nietzschean nihilism as life-denial. There, I pay special attention to nihilism as a psychological (specifically, affective) phenomenon in Nietzsche's thought, arguing that we cannot understand Nietzsche's diagnosis of nihilism as a problem without attending to this psychological dimension. You can find an interview with the LA Review of Books about this project here and an NDPR review of the book here.

I also write public philosophy: see this essay on loneliness in Aeon and this essay on nihilism in Psyche.