Curriculum Vitae

Education

- PhD in Philosophy, University of Melbourne (conferred August 2006). Thesis: "The Concept of 'Interest' in Kierkegaard's Moral Psychology"

- BA Hons., University of Melbourne, 1999 (conferred March 2000). Honors Thesis: "Willing, Choosing, Leaping: Self and Affirmation in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche"

- PG Cert. Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Hertfordshire, 2011

Positions Held

February 2012-Present
- Lecturer in Philosophy, Deakin University.

July 2010- February 2012
- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire (July 2010-2012). Project "Selves In Time: Temporal Emplacement and Affective Identification in Personal Identity Theory." Also teaching subjects "Themes in Plato's Republic" and "The Right and the Good" (Mill and Kant), 2010-11.

February 2008-March 2010
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen (February 2008-present). Project "Self, Identity and Reflexive Cognition in Kierkegaard's Thought" funded by (Danish Research Council for the Humanities). Also provided postgraduate supervision and taught classes on Kierkegaard for University of Copenhagen and DIS.

July-December 2007
- Kierkegaard House Foundation Fellow, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota (July-December 2007)

February-June 2007
- Tutor, "Great Thinkers in Moral Philosophy" (Aristotle, Kant, Mill), University of Melbourne 

February-June 2003
- Tutor, "Reason, Religion and Responsibility" (Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics), University of Melbourne

June 2002
- Stipendiary Summer Fellow, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St Olaf College

August 2001- June 2002
- Tutor, "Freedom and Constraint" (Existentialism, Contemporary European Philosophy), University of Melbourne

Competitive Grants and Prizes

- European Commission Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship: funding for research project "Selves in Time," 2010-12

- Den Frie Forskingsråd for Kultur og Kommunikation (Danish Government's Independent Research Council for the Humanities): funding for postdoctoral project, 2008-10

- Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, University College Dublin (did not take up as Danish funding already accepted for the same project), 2008-2010

- Kierkegaard House Foundation Fellowship, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St Olaf College, July-December 2007

- Summer Fellowship, Hong Kierkegaard Library, June 2002

- TRIPS Travel Grant, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, 2002

- Laurie Prize (Major) for second academic ranking in the Philosophy Pure Honours year, University of Melbourne, 1999

Honorary Appointments

2007- Present
- Honorary Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne

Other Academic Activities

- Member of International Advisory Panel, Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook

- Referee for journals including Inquiry, Continental Philosophy Review, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Philosophy and Technology and International Journal for Philosophical Studies

- Co-convener of "Kierkgaard and Death" Symposium, St Olaf College, December 2007

- Member of Conference Organizing Committee, “Kierkegaard and Asia” (1st International Conference of the Kierkegaard Society of Japan), held at Ormond College, University of Melbourne, December 2005

- Created and maintain “Kierkegaard Studies in Australasia” Website, an information portal for Kierkegaard researchers in the Australasian region.