About AD

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education:

  • Ph.D., Religion Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, expected July 2008.
  • Thesis Title: Counting to Four: Assessing the Quaternity of C.G. Jung in the Light of Lacan and Sophiology. Director: Dr. Lucy Bregman.
  • BA, Cultural Poetics, Seattle Pacific University, 1999.
  • BA, Music with emphasis in violin performance, Seattle Pacific University, 1999.

Teaching Experience:

Adjunct Instructor:

  • Introduction to World Religions, Rutgers University and Temple University (2002-2008).
  • Introduction to New Testament, Temple University, Philadelphia (2007-2008).
  • Death & Dying, Temple University (2001-2008).
  • Introduction to Bible, Rutgers University, Camden (2007).
  • What is Christianity, Temple University (2007).
  • Intellectual Heritage, Temple University (2006).
  • Psychology & Religion, Cabrini University, Philadelphia (2006).

Assistant Lecturer:

  • Introduction to Ethics, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia (2003).

Guest Lecturer:

  • Psychology & Religion (Graduate Seminar), Temple University (2006).
  • Introduction to Philosophy, Villanova University, Philadelphia (2004).

Articles

  • “Modesty in the Christian Tradition.” In Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, edited by Yudit Greenberg. Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2007.
  • “Where the Father was, There Shall I be: Tracing the Short Circuit Between Real and Imaginary in the Harry Potter Saga.” In A Lacan Primer: Lacan through Children’s Narrative, Children’s Narrative through Lacan, edited by Kelly McGuire. (Collection under submission).

Conference Presentations

  • “The Logic of Twisting Time: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Time Travel in The Prisoner of Azkaban”
  • Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Nov. 2-4, 2007.
  • “Playing Along with Auden: A Performance of Selected Light Verse”
  • MLA National Conference, Chicago, December 2007.
  • “Brood Reality: Cronenberg avec Lacan”
  • The 2008 Religion and Literature Forum at LeMoyne College entitled, The Grotesque and Sublime in Contemporary Culture, April 4-5, 2008.
  • “The Paradoxical Nature of the Subject’s Ex-timate Core”
  • AAR Mid-Atlantic Region Annual Meeting, March 27-28, 2008.

Scholarships and Awards

  • Teaching Fellowship for the Religion Department at Temple University (2001 and 2003).
  • Violin Performance Scholarship from Seattle Pacific University (1995-1999).
  • Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Seattle Pacific University (1999).

Informal Lectures

  • “Pico della Mirandola and the Age of the Holy Spirit.” St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. December 14, 2003.
  • “Harry Potter and the Myth of the Hero.” Curtis Music Institute, April 15, 2008.
  • “Revising Caliban: Searching for Forgiveness in W.H. Auden’s The Mirror.” St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. January 15, 2006.
  • “Let This Good Dust Have its Day.” A performance of W.H. Auden lyrics set to original music, followed by a short lecture. Presented at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. October 18, 2005.
  • “Images of the Resurrection” A six week course given at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. April-May, 2008.

Committee Experience

  • Graduate Studies Committee, Temple University (2006).
  • Undergraduate Studies Committee, Temple University (2007-2008).
  • Hiring Committee for Position in Hebrew Bible, Temple University (2007-2008).

Musical Endeavors