About Me

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Current Research

Topics on which I am presently writing include:

• A critical phenomenology of human needs;

• Critical and feminist phenomenological accounts of gender as an embodied style of being-in-the-world;

• Conceptual links between critical phenomenology and family abolition literatures;

• Marxist feminist approaches to gender as a technology;

• The conceptual relationships between social reproduction, temporality, and the value form;

• Agnes Heller's concept of radical needs; and

• The concept of embodiment in Marxist feminist accounts of historical development.

Dissertation Research

My doctoral dissertation concerned emerging scholarship in critical phenomenology and social reproduction theory (SRT). I identified two "schools" of SRT thought: one centered on gender as a social technology of time, and the other on the historical development of bodily modes of (re)production.

I addressed tensions and ambiguities between these two schools with critical phenomenology, and posited a concept I name the domestic hold: a critical phenomenological interpretation of the gendered division of labour. I argued that social reproduction is best thought of as the totality of ways in which subjects give, make, and take time together.

In doing so, I showed how a) the conceptual tensions and ambiguities between these schools may be addressed through engagement with critical phenomenology, and b) critical phenomenology may gain a robust and non-reductive account of class via the Marxist feminist tradition. 

In Summer 2025, I successfully defended my doctoral thesis, "A Critical Phenomenology of Social Reproduction," in the Philosophy Ph.D. program at Queen's University under the supervision of Prof. Lisa Guenther.

Since 2017, I have worked as a part-time instructor at institutions including Brandon University (Brandon, MB) and Bishop's University (Sherbrooke, QC) teaching courses in Philosophy, English Literature, and academic writing.

I received my M.A. in Philosophy at Concordia University in Spring 2015, where I completed my Major Research Paper on deconstruction,  différance, and Paul Ricoeur's concept of narrative identity with Prof. Matthias Fritsch.

Prior to my graduate studies, I double majored in Philosophy and English Literature, with a minor in History, at Brandon University in Brandon, MB.