• PHIL 4000-010: Philosophical Problems (Existentialism) (Fall 2008)

• HONS 3300-H04: Individual Honors Research (Spring 2008)

Upper-level Seminars: 

• HONS 3301-H03: Philosophical Filmmakers: Bergman, Kurosawa, Kieslowski (Spring 2012)

• HONS 3304-H01: Europe and its Cinema (Fall 2008;  Spring 2009)

• HONS 3301-H07: Philosophy of Place and Space (Spring 2008)

• HONS 3301-H05: Seeing Films Philosophically (Spring 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011)

• HONS 3301-H05: Matters of Life and Death (Fall 2007)

Middle-level Courses: 

• HONS 2314-H01: International Cinema (Europe and its Cinema) (Fall 2010; Spring 2011)

• HUMA 2302-H01: The Western Intellectual Tradition II (Spring 2009, 2011)

• HUMA 2301-H01: The Western Intellectual Tradition I (Fall 2008, 2010)

• HUM 2301-H01: A History of the New (Introduction to Humanities I) (Fall 2006, 2007)

• HUM 2302-H01: A History of the New (Introduction to Humanities II) (Spring 2007, 2008)

First-year Seminars: 

• HONS 1301-H03: Philosophy and Literature  (Fall 2007, 2008, 2010)

• HONS 1301-H03: The Brothers Karamazov (Fall 2006)

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Courses taught in the past:

At Sabanci University  (Istanbul, Turkey):

  Upper-level Courses:

• FILM 390:  Topics in Film Studies: Philosophical Filmmakers (Bergman, Kurosawa, Kieslowski) (Summer 2011)

At University of Pune / Forum on Contemporary Theory (Pune, India):

Graduate Seminars:

• Matters of Life & Death (Summer 2010) [intensive graduate seminar]

At Fulbright International Summer Institute (Bansko, Bulgaria)

Graduate Seminars:

• Seeing Films Philosophically (Summer 2010) [intensive graduate seminar]

At Miami University:

Graduate Seminars:

• PHL 440/540: Berkeley (Fall 2005)

• PHL/POL 410-510: Politics and Philosophies of Time (Spring 2005 & Spring 2006)

• PHL 360: Religion, Politics, and Philosophy in "The Brothers Karamazov" (Fall 2006)

• PHL 310/RUS 250: Dostoyevsky as a Social Philosopher (Spring 2005 & Spring 2006)

At European College of Liberal Arts (Berlin, Germany):

• The Mantle of the Prophet: Demons, Saints, and Terrorists (Summer 2008) [interdisciplinary upper-level course; team-taught]

• Modern Thought, Literature, and Arts (Summer 2006) [interdisciplinary upper-level course; team-taught]

• The "Cursed Questions" and Modern Man (Summer 2005) [interdisciplinary upper-level course; team taught]

At Cornell University:

• PHIL 100.11 - Philosophy or literature? The literary art of philosophers  (Fall 2003) [writing seminar]

At Central European University (Budapest, Hungary):

• Cosmologies of History  – The Symbolic Organization of Time (Summer 2003) [a team-taught summer course for university teachers, advanced PhD students, and researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities]

At University of Durham (England):

• PHIL-2031: Modern Philosophy I (Fall & Spring 2001-2003) [tutorials and-team taught lectures]

At University of Bucharest (Romania):

• Introduction to Ethics (Fall 1997-2000) [tutorials]

• Philosophy of Religion (Fall & Spring 1997-2003) [tutorials]

• History of Romanian Philosophy (Spring 1997-1998) [tutorials]

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  Graduate Supervision/Examination:

PhD Dissertations:

• Matthew Lamb (School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of Queensland, Australia); Dissertation title: “The role of ascesis in the life and work of Albert Camus,” 2010 (external examiner)

 

MA Theses:

• Steven Rybicki (Philosophy Department, Texas Tech University); Thesis topic: Martin Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit; 2007 (second examiner)

• Erin Jones (Philosophy Department, Miami University); Thesis topic: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four; 2006 (second examiner)

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