Curriculum Vitae 2021

LEAH KALMANSON
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS ● DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
1155 UNION CIRCLE #310920, DENTON, TEXAS 76203 ● LEAH.KALMANSON@UNT.EDU

EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy December 2010. Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai‘i.

Dissertation: “The Politics of Emptiness: Alterity, Autonomy, and the

Radical Subjectivity of No-Self.”

Master of Arts August 2005. Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai‘i.

Bachelor of Liberal Arts May 2000 (Suma Cum Laude). Department of Philosophy, Oglethorpe
University.

SCHOLARSHIP
Areas of Specialization Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Global-
Critical Philosophy of Religion

Areas of Competence Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Feminist Philosophy, Postcolonial

Theory

Languages Textual competency in literary Japanese and some ability with

contemporary spoken Japanese, limited textual competency in classical
Chinese and German

EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor 2021 to present. Bhagwan Adinath Professor of Jain Studies.
Department of Philosophy and Religion. University of North Texas.

Associate Professor 2016 to 2021. Department of Philosophy and Religion. Drake

University.

Assistant Professor 2011 to 2016. Department of Philosophy and Religion. Drake

University.

Visiting Assistant Professor 2010–2011. Department of Philosophy and Religion. Drake

University.
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PUBLICATIONS
Books

2021 A Practical Guide to World Philosophies: Selves, Worlds, and Ways of Knowing. Co-authored
with Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach (Bloomsbury).

2020 Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought
(Bloomsbury).

Edited Books

2018 Comparative Studies in Asian and Latin American Philosophies. Co-edited with Stephanie Rivera-
Berruz (Bloomsbury).

2017 Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion. Co-edited with Tim Knepper
(Springer).

2014 Buddhist Responses to Globalization. Co-edited with James Mark Shields (Lexington Press).

2013 Levinas and Asian Thought. Co-edited with Frank Garrett and Sarah Mattice (Duquesne
University Press).

2010 Confucianism in Context: Classic Philosophy and Contemporary Issues, East Asia and Beyond.
Co-edited, and introduction co-written, with Wonsuk Chang. (SUNY Press).

Journal Articles

2021 “A Visit to the Local God: Reclaiming the Diversity of the Divine.” Journal of the Pacific
Association for the Continental Tradition Vol. 4: 22–44.

2019 “Lessons from the Sanjie: Merit Economies as Catalysts for Social Change.” Studies in Chinese
Religions Vol. 5 (2): 142–150.

2018 “Speculation as Transformation in Chinese Philosophy: Speculative Realism, ‘New’ Materialism,

and the Study of Li (理) and Qi (氣).” Journal of World Philosophies Vol. 3 (1): 17–30.

2017 “The Ritual Methods of Comparative Philosophy.” Philosophy East and West Vol. 67 (2): 399–
418.

2015 “If You Show Me Yours: Reading all ‘Difference’ as ‘Colonial Difference’ in Comparative
Philosophy.” Comparative and Continental Philosophy Vol. 7 (2): 201–213.

“The De of Levinas: Cultivating the Heart-Mind of Radical Passivity.” Co-written with Sarah
Mattice. Frontiers of Philosophy in China Vol. 10 (1): 113–129.

2012 “Buddhism and bell hooks: Liberatory Aesthetics and the Radical Subjectivity of No-Self.”
Hypatia Vol. 27 (4): 810–827.

“The Messiah and the Bodhisattva: Anti-Utopianism Re-Revisited.” Shofar: An

Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. 30 (4): 113–125.

2010 “Levinas in Japan: The Ethics of Alterity and the Philosophy of No-Self.” Continental
Philosophy Review Vol. 43 (2): 193–206.
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Chapters in Books

“Loyalty and the Reception of Buddhism in East Asia.” In Loyalty. Edited by Troy Jollimore
(Oxford, under contract).

“Philosophy as Petromania: Graham Parkes, Jane Bennett, and the (Not So) New Materialisms.”
In The Wandering Dance: Essays in Honor of Graham Parkes. Edited by David Jones
(Bloomsbury, under contract).

“Qi Cosmology.” In What Paths–What Summits: A Multi-Entry Approach to Philosophy of

Religion. Edited by Timothy Knepper, Gereon Kopf, and Nathan Loewen (Bloomsbury, under
contract).

“Self-Cultivation and Political Power in Feminism and Chinese Philosophy.” In Intercultural

Concepts in Philosophical Education: A Transformative Toolkit. Edited by Sarah Flavel and
Chiara Robbiano (Bloomsbury, under contract).

“Theory and Method in the Philosophy of Religion in China’s Song Dynasty.” In Global-Critical
Philosophy of Religion: Critical Methods and Theories. Edited by Nathan Loewen and Tim
Knepper (Bloomsbury, under contract).

2021 “Roots and Branches: Self-Cultivation as Political Transformation in Neo-Confucian Thought.” In

The Chinese Ideology. Edited by Shiping Hua (Routledge).

2020 “The East in the West: Chinese, Japanese, and Indian Philosophy in the 20th Century.” Co-
written with Laura Guerrero and Sarah Mattice. In Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015.
Edited by Kelly Becker and Iain D. Thomson. (Cambridge University Press).

2019 “Whiteness and the Construction of Buddhist Philosophy in Meiji Japan.” In Buddhism and
Whiteness. Edited by Emily McRae and George Yancy (Lexington).

“Raichō: Zen and the Female Body in the Development of Japanese Feminist Philosophy.”
Co-written with Michiko Yusa. In The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy. Edited by Bret
Davis (Oxford University Press).

2018 “Like You Mean It: Buddhist Teachings on Selflessness, Sincerity, and the Performative
Practice of Liberation.” In Self/No-Self: Claremont Studies in Philosophy of Religion. Edited by
Ingolf Dalferth and Marelene Block (Mohr Siebeck).

2017 “Dharma and Dao: Key Terms in the Comparative Philosophy of Religion.” In Ineffability: An
Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion. Co-edited with Tim Knepper (Springer).

“Pure Land Ecology: Taking the Supernatural Seriously in Environmental Philosophy.” In

Japanese Environmental Philosophy. Edited J. Baird Callicott and James McRae (Oxford
University Press).

2016 “Commentary on Giving.” In Engaging Dōgen’s Zen: The Philosophy of Practice

as Liberation. Edited by Tetsuzen Jason Wirth, Kanpū Bret Davis, and Shūdō Brian Schroeder
(Wisdom Publications).

2014 “An Inexhaustible Storehouse for an Insurmountable Debt: A Buddhist Reading of

Reparations.” In Buddhist Responses to Globalization. Edited by Leah Kalmanson and James
Mark Shields (Lexington Press).
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2009 “The Ethics of Emptiness: A Comparative Study of Watsuji Tetsurō and Emmanuel Levinas.” In
Comparative Philosophy Today and Tomorrow. Edited by Sarah Mattice, et al. (Cambridge
Scholars’ Press).

Review Articles and Author-Meets-Reader Features

2021 “Wild Dreams: Cultivating Change in and with Community.” Response to readers in a review
feature on Cross-Cultural Existentialism by Leah Kalmanson. Philosophy East and West
(forthcoming).

“Philosophy as ‘Commentary’: Ruminating on Buddhas Old and New.” Contribution to a review

feature on Nietzsche and Other Buddhas: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy by Jason
Wirth. Philosophy East and West (forthcoming).

2020 “The Personal, the Political: Zen Practice and Feminist Critique.” Contribution to an author-meets-
reader feature on Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun by Jin Y. Park. Journal of World
Philosophies Vol. 5 (2): 161–165.

2017 “Decolonizing the Department: Peter K. J. Park and the Profession of Philosophy.” Contribution to
an author-meets-reader feature on Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy by Peter K.Y. Park.
Journal of World Philosophies Vol. 2 (2): 60–65.

2015 “Have We Got a Method for You! Recent Developments in Comparative and Cross-Cultural
Methodologies.” Confluence: Online Journal of World Philosophies Issue 3.

2013 “‘The Bottomless Brightness of the Open Expanse’: Reflections on Japanese and Continental
Philosophy.” Comparative and Continental Philosophy Vol. 4 (2): 283–293.

Book Reviews

2020 Three Streams: Confucian Reflections on Learning and the Moral Heart-Mind in China, Korea,
and Japan. By Philip J. Ivanhoe. Philosophy East and West Vol. 70 (2): 1–4.

2019 Buddhist Spiritual Practices: Thinking with Pierre Hadot on Buddhism, Philosophy, and the Path.
Edited by David V. Fiordalis. Buddhist-Christian Studies Vol. 39 (1): 331–335.

Engaging Japanese Philosophy: A Short History. By Thomas P. Kasulis. Philosophy East and
West Vol. 69 (1): 1–4

2018 Ru Meditation: Gao Panlong (1562–1626). By Bin Song. Philosophy East and West Vol. 68 (4):
1–5.

2016 Encounters of Mind: Luminosity and Personhood in Indian and Chinese Thought. By Douglas L.
Berger. Journal of Buddhist Ethics Vol. 23.

Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue: Liberating Traditions. Edited Ashby Butnor and
Jen McWeeney. Hypatia Reviews Online.

2015 Collecting Objects/Excluding People: Chinese Subjects and American Visual Culture, 1890–
1900. By Lenore Metrick-Chen. Comparative and Continental Philosophy Vol. 7 (1).

2013 Facing Nature: Levinas and Environmental Thought. Edited by William Edelglass, James Hatley,
and Christian Diehm. Environmental Ethics Vol. 35.

Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood through Continental, Japanese, and Feminist

Philosophies. By Erin McCarthy. Journal of Japanese Philosophy Vol. 1 (1).
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2011 Nishida and Western Philosophy. By Robert Wilkinson. Sophia: International Journal for
Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics Vol. 50 (3): 505–507.

2005 The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse. By Thomas Michael. China Review
International Vol. 12 (2): 520–524.

Interviews and Public Media

2021 On A Practical Guide to World Philosophies by Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach and Leah Kalmanson.
Interview with Malcolm Keating. New Books Network (March 19).
https://newbooksnetwork.com/a-practical-guide-to-world-philosophies.

2020 On “Buddhism and bell hooks” by Leah Kalmanson. Interview with Tom Burge. Buddhist
Philosophy Podcast, episode 5 (July 23).
https://laidlawscholars.network/posts/buddhism-and-bell-hooks.

2012 Feature on Kim Hutchinson. Gestalt: Creatives and Their Spaces (Summer).
https://cargocollective.com/Gestalt_creatives/Kim-Hutchison

“A Year in FLUXX.” Art Beacon Des Moines (June).

https://www.artbeacondesmoines.com/artbeacondsm/a-year-in-fluxx

Other Non-Refereed Publications and Editorial Work

2020 Foreword. Philosophy’s Big Questions: Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches. Edited by
Steven M. Emmanuel. Columbia University Press, forthcoming.

2019 Book note on The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Philosophy.
Edited by Michiko Yusa. Religious Studies Review Vol. 45 (2): 242–243.

2018 Book note on Emerson and Neo-Confucianism: Crossing Paths over the Pacific. By Yoshio
Takanashi. Religious Studies Review Vol. 44 (1): 123.

2016 Guest Editor with Sarah Mattice. Special Issue on Teaching Comparative Philosophy.
ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts Vol. 23 (2).

“Introduction: The Rewards and Challenges of Comparative Philosophy in the Undergraduate

Classroom.” With Sarah Mattice. ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the
Liberal Arts Vol. 23 (2): 83–90.

2014 Guest Editor. APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies
13 (2).

“The CAAAPP Year in Review: New Trends in Asian Philosophy and Postcolonial Theory.” APA
Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies 13 (2): 1–3.

2010 Translation of Kuki Shuzō, The Philosophy of Heidegger [ハイデガーの哲学]. Under the
supervision of Shōji Kakuko. Unpublished manuscript.

Translation of Kuki Shuzō, “Regarding Japanese Character” [日本的性格について]. Under the

supervision of Shōji Kakuko. Unpublished manuscript.

CONFERENCES AND LECTURES

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Keynotes and Plenaries

2021 Compass Award of the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle. Awarded to John C.
Maraldo (plenary session with lecture and respondents). Online meeting. May 8.

2018 “Ruism and the Problem of Eurocentrism in Academic Philosophy” (opening plenary). Rectifying
the Name of Confucianism. Boston University Confucian Association. September 28–30.

2015 “What is Tetsugaku?: Japanese Negotiations with Western Colonialism” (plenary panel).
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Monterey, California. October 1–4.

“The Question of Methodology in Comparative Philosophy” (plenary panel). Society for Asian
and Comparative Philosophy. Monterey, California. October 1–4.

2014 “If You Show Me Yours: Reading all ‘Difference’ as ‘Colonial Difference’ in Comparative
Philosophy” (plenary panel). Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle. Santa Barbara,
California. March 20–23.

2013 “There’s No Getting Beyond: Buddhism, Bataille, and the Economics of Decline” (plenary
address). Ninth Annual Religion, Literature, and the Arts Conference. University of Iowa.
September 27.

“Levinas by Any Other Name: Translation, Dialogue, and the Invention of Religion in East
Asia” (keynote). Eighth Annual Conference and Meeting of the North American Levinas Society.
Duquesne University. July 28.

Refereed Conference Presentations

2019 “Philosophizing ‘Religion’ through Qi-Cosmology.” Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Seminar.

American Academy of Religion. San Diego, California. November 23–26.

“Shinran’s Concept of the Pure Land as Framed by the Problem of Practice.” Buddhist Philosophy
Unit. American Academy of Religion. San Diego, California. November 23–26.

“Speculative Philosophy and the Extension of Knowledge (zhizhi 致知): Engaging Steven
Shaviro's Aesthetics.” Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle. Universiteit Leiden. May
23–25.

2018 “On ‘Speculative Aesthetics’: Reading Steven Shaviro through a Qi-Based Philosophy.” Society
sessions of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. World Congress of Philosophy,
Beijing, China. August 19.

“What Does It Really Mean to ‘Diversify’ Philosophy? A Call for Structural Change.” The
Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle. Bath Spa University, United Kingdom. April 5–7.

“What Does It Mean to ‘Do’ Philosophy? Using Literati (Ru 儒) Methodologies in Undergraduate
Coursework.” Teaching Hub at the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association.
Savannah, Georgia. January 3–6.

2017 “The (Non-)Practice of Not-Directing Merit: Levinas, Shinran, and the Impossibility of Doing
Good.” American Academy of Religion. Boston, Maryland. November 18–21.

“Decolonizing the Department: Structural Changes at the Curricular Level.” Session of the
Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies. Central Division of the
American Philosophical Association. Kansas City, Missouri. March 1–4.
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“Merit and Money: Shinran, Levinas, and the Circulation of Compassion.” Sponsored session of
the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Eastern Division of the American
Philosophical Association. Baltimore, Maryland. January 4–7.

2016 “Qi-Cosmology and the Feminist Sage: The Limits and Powers of Agency.” Iowa Philosophical
Society. Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa.

“Technologies of the Relational Self: Foucault, Qi-Cosmology, and the Transformative Power
of Recitation.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Salt Lake City, Utah.
October 20–22.

“Interrogating Deusu (デウス): Arai Hakuseki and the Comparative Philosophy of Religion.”
International Association of Japanese Philosophy. Fukuoka, Japan. October 7–9.

“The Dharma and the Dao: Imagining New Categories in the Philosophy of Religion.” Society for
Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Honolulu, Hawai‘i. June 3–5.

“Be the Change that You Want to See in the World? Qi-Cosmology and Structural Change.” East-
West Philosophers’ Conference. Honolulu, Hawai‘i. May 23–June 2.

“Feminism, Qi-Cosmology, and Structural Change.” Sponsored session of the North American
Korean Philosophy Association. Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association.
Washington, D.C. January 4–7.

2014 “The Power of Giving: Sanjie and Sōtō Teachings on Dāna and the Ethical Efficacy of Ritual.”
International Association of Buddhist Studies. Vienna, Austria. August 18–23.

“Health, Human Rights, and Care Ethics.” Law and Society Association. Minneapolis,
Minnesota. May 29–June 1.

2013 “Reflections on Womanist-Buddhist Dialogue and the Future of Comparative Philosophy.”

Session of the Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophies and Philosophers. Eastern
Division of the American Philosophical Association. Baltimore, Maryland. December 27–30.

2012 “Now I Get It!: Thinking Slowly about Sudden Enlightenment for Ethics Today.” Annual
Conference of the American Academy of Religion. Chicago. November 18.

“Restorative Justice and the Question of Ritual Efficacy: Buddhist Perspectives.” Society for
Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Southern Illinois University. October 11–13.

“Ritual Enlightenment: Judith Butler, Zazen, and the Performance of Liberation.”

Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle. University of San Diego. March 8–10.

2011 “Systemic Suffering: Buddhism, Global Power, and the Question of Reparations.” Eastern
Division of the American Philosophical Association. Washington, D.C. December 27–31.

“Unsaying the Said: Dōgen and the Question of Original Enlightenment.” Annual conference
of the American Academy of Religion. San Francisco. November 19–22.

2010 “The Bodhisattva Paradox: A Buddhist Argument for Levinas’s Anti-Utopianism.”

International Conference of the Société internationale des recherché Emmanuel Lévinas and the
North American Levinas Society. Toulouse, France. July 4–9.

“Buddhism and bell hooks: Liberatory Aesthetics and the Radical Subjectivity of No-Self.”
Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle. Tokai University, Honolulu. April 8–10.
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2009 “Identity Politics and the Relationally Constituted Self.” Eastern Division of the American
Philosophical Association. New York City. December 27–30.

“Levinas and Buddhism: The ‘Other’ Philosophy.” North American Levinas Society. University
of Toronto. June 28–30.

2008 “The Ethics of Emptiness: A Comparative Study of Watsuji Tetsurō and Emmanuel Levinas.”
Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle. East-West Center, Honolulu. April 12.

2007 “The Ethics of Emptiness: A Comparative Study of Watsuji Tetsurō and Emmanuel Levinas.”
Fortieth Anniversary Conference of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Pacific
Grove, California. June 10–13.

Invited Lectures (Academic)

2021 “The Meaning of Death?” Philosophy Club lecture series. Central Connecticut State University.
April 9.

2020 “Democracy and Daily Renewal: Chinese Contemplative Practice for Political Health.” China-
Themed Lecture Series. Kirkwood Community College. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. March 3.

2019 “Why Nothing Matters: Rethinking Existentialism through East Asian Philosophies.” Wesleyan
University. Middletown, Connecticut. October 30.

“Arai Hakuseki: A Comparative Philosopher in Tokugawa Japan?” Philosophy Department

Colloquium Series. University of Hawai‘i. October 11.

“So You Want to Diversify Philosophy.” Columbia University Society for Comparative Philosophy.
New York City, New York. April 26.

“How to Think: Eurocentrism and the Practice(s) of Philosophy.” Morgan State University.
Baltimore, Maryland. February 28.

2018 “Zhu Xi on the Ethics of Reading: Or, Philosophy as a Study Guide for Self-Transformation.”
Annual Ethics Keynote. Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Denver. November
15.

2015 “Philosophizing Ineffability: Comparative Reflections on Our 2013–2015 Themes and Events,”
with Tim Knepper. The Comparison Project. Drake University. April 30.

“‘I Am More Responsible than All the Others’: Jewish Perspectives on Charity.” Annual
Maurice Amado Foundation Lecture. California State University, Northridge. February 10.

2014 “The Radical Subjectivity of No-Self.” Department of Philosophy. University of San Francisco.
November 27.

2013 “The Question of Transcendence: Translation, Dialogue, and the Invention of Religion in East
Asia.” Annual Invited Lecture in Philosophy. University of South Florida. November 7.

2012 “Engaged Buddhism.” Humanities Center Colloquium Series. Drake University. November 30.

“Zen Master Dōgen Is Not a Zen Master: Philosophy, Ritual Studies, and the Image of Zen in
America.” John C. Maraldo Lecture Series in Comparative Philosophy. University of North Florida.
April 5.
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“Rethinking Reparations: Buddhist Perspectives on Restorative Justice.” Mike Ryan Lecture

Series. Kennesaw State University. Atlanta, Georgia. March 14.

2005 “The Impermanent Environment: Consumerism, Buddhism, and the Economics of Georges
Bataille.” Philosophy Department Colloquium Series. University of Hawai‘i. April 8.

Invited Lectures (Community)

2017 “Everyday Existentialism.” LIVESTRONG at the YMCA Survivor Program. West Des Moines.
March 16.

2013 “What is Buddhism?” Saint Mark’s Supper Program and Lecture Series. Saint Mark’s United
Methodist Church. Atlanta, Georgia. March 20.

2012 “An Introduction to Buddhism.” LIVESTRONG at the YMCA Survivor Program. West Des
Moines, Iowa. September 5.

2011 “An Introduction to Hinduism and Buddhism.” LIVESTRONG at the YMCA Survivor Program.
West Des Moines. March 16.

Invited Consortia and Symposia

2019 “What Is Interiority? Transcendence and Inner Experience in Levinas and Asian Thought.” Le
singulier et l’universel Levinas et la pensée de l’Extrême-Orient. Co-organized by the Japan
Association of Phenomenologists, the Japanese Society of Levinas Studies, and the Department
of Religious Studies at Kyoto University. Waseda University. Tokyo, Japan. November 16–17.

“Loyalty and the Reception of Buddhism in East Asia.” The Virtue of Loyalty Conference. The
Self, Virtue, and Public Life Project. Norman, Oklahoma. June 14–15.

2018 “The Value of Reading: A Study Guide to the Meaningful Universe of Song-Dynasty
Confucianism.” Annual Austin J. Fagothey Philosophy Conference. Santa Clara University.
February 10.

2017 “The Enlightenment and Other Stories We Tell: Reimagining Modernity from Tokugawa Ruism.”
World Consortium for Research in Confucian Cultures. Kyoto University. November 3–4.

“Lessons from the Sanjie: Merit Economies as Drivers of Social Change.” Buddhism and
Business, Market and Merit: Intersections between Buddhism and Economics Past and Present.
University of British Columbia. May 19–21.

2016 “The Economics of Money and Merit: Levinas, Shinran, and the Currency of Compassion.”
Symposium on Shinran and Continental Philosophy. Institute for Buddhist Studies. Berkeley,
California. April 15–16.

2015 “Reading All ‘Difference’ as ‘Colonial Difference’ in Comparative Philosophy.” Asian

Philosophy and the Decolonial Project. University of San Francisco. August 13, 2015.

“Like You Mean It: Selflessness and Sincerity in Moral Action.” Claremont Philosophy of
Religion Conference. Claremont Graduate University. February 20–21.

2013 “The Temple of the Absolute: Inoue and the Ethics of Practicing the Impracticable.”
Workshop on Inoue Enryō. Toyo University and Luther College. Decorah, Iowa. May 24.

2012 “Can We Internationalize ‘Ethics’ in the Curriculum? Roundtable of Faculty Teaching Ethics in
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an International Context.” Inaugural Herb and Karen Baum Symposium on Ethics and the
Professions. Drake University. October 2.

Invited Conference Presentations

2021 Jason Wirth’s Nietzsche and Other Buddhas (author-meets-reader panel). Sponsored by the
International Society for Buddhist Philosophy. Central Division of the American Philosophical
Association (web meeting). March 25.

2019 “Is Philosophy of Religion Too Christian?—Yes! A View from Tokugawa Japan.” Divisional
program invited symposium presentation. Central Division of the American Philosophical
Association. Denver, Colorado. February 20–23.

2018 “Imagining a Better World through Japanese Philosophies.” Sponsored by the International
Association for Japanese Philosophy. World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, China. August 19.

2017 “Pure Land Ecology: Taking the Supernatural Seriously in Environmental Philosophy.” Sponsored
by the International Association for Japanese Philosophy. Eastern Division of the American
Philosophical Association. Baltimore, Maryland. January 4–7.

2016 Peter Park’s Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the
Philosophical Canon (author-meets-reader panel). APA session of the Committee on Asian and
Asian-American Philosophies and Philosophers. Central Division of the American Philosophical
Association. Chicago, Illinois. March 2–5.

“The Personal, the Political: Zen Practice and Feminist Critique.” Sponsored by the International
Society for Buddhist Philosophy. Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association.
Washington, D.C. January 4–7.

2015 Steven Shankman’s Other Others: Levinas. Literature, and Transcultural Studies (author-
meets-reader panel). North American Levinas Society. Purdue University. July 27–30.

2014 “What is Tetsugaku?: Japanese Negotiations with the Philosophy-Religion-Pagan Paradigm

via Western Colonialism.” Sponsored by the International Association for Japanese Philosophy.
Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
December 27–30.

“Levinas and Asian Philosophy” (author-meets-reader panel). North American Levinas Society.
Ocean City, Maryland. May 21–23.

“What’s in a Name? Contextualizing the Colonial History of Comparative Philosophy for

Students.” Society for Teaching Comparative Philosophy. Jacksonville, Florida. February 28–
March 1.

2013 “Philosophers, Comparativists, Activists: New Work in Womanist-Buddhist Dialogue.” Sponsored

by the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy. Eugene, Oregon. October 24-26.

2011 “Erin McCarthy’s Ethics Embodied” (author-meets-reader panel). Comparative and

Continental Philosophy Circle. University College Cork. Ireland. March 3–5.

2005 “Integrating Mental Health Care into Disaster Relief.” What After the Tent?: A Workshop on
Development of Plans for Risk Reduction in Tsunami-Affected and Other Areas of Human
Insecurity. Peace and Conflict Resolution Workgroup in conjunction with the East-West Center.
April 24.
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2002 “Michael Ignatieff’s Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry” (roundtable panel). Georgia
Continental Philosophy Society. Georgia College and State University. Millidgeville. April.

Conference Organization

Conferences and symposia

2019 International Association for Japanese Philosophy (main organizer). University of Hawai‘i at
Mānoa. Honolulu, Hawai‘i. October 12–13.

North American Levinas Society (convener and main organizer). Drake University. Des Moines,
Iowa. July 23–25.

2015 Society for Teaching Comparative Philosophy (convener and co-organizer). Drake University.
Des Moines, Iowa. July 23–24.

2014 Society for Teaching Comparative Philosophy (co-organizer). University of North Florida.
Jacksonville, Florida. February 28–March 1.

2013 Margins of Philosophy Symposium: Decolonizing Comparative Methodologies (co-organizer).

Kennesaw State University. Kennesaw, Georgia. March 19–21.

2012 Iowa Philosophical Society (conference committee). Drake University. Des Moines, Iowa. October
20.

Panels at conferences

2021 Kaitlyn Creasy’s The Problem of Affective Nihilism in Nietzsche. Divisional program invited book
panel. Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. Virtual meeting. April 5–10.

Philosophy and Chinese Mind-Body Practices. Divisional program invited symposium. Pacific
Division of the American Philosophical Association. Virtual meeting. April 5–10.

Experiential Workshop on Chinese Contemplative Body Practices. Sponsored session of the

Society for Teaching Comparative Philosophy. Teaching Hub at the Central Division of the
American Philosophical Association. Virtual meeting. February 22–27.

Jason Wirth’s Nietzsche and Other Buddhas. Sponsored session of the International Society for
Buddhist Philosophy. Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. Virtual meeting.
February 22–27.

2020 Subjectivity and the Body in Buddhist Philosophy. Sponsored session of the International Society
for Buddhist Philosophy. Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. Chicago,
Illinois. February 26–29.

Intra-Buddhist Dialogue. Sponsored session of the International Society for Buddhist Philosophy.
Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. Chicago, Illinois. February 26–29.

2019 Buddhist Philosophy in the Undergraduate Classroom. Sponsored session of the International
Society for Buddhist Philosophy. Central Division of the American Philosophical Association.
Denver, Colorado. February 20–23.

Buddhist Spaces. Sponsored session of the International Society for Buddhist Philosophy.
Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. Denver, Colorado. February 20–23.

2018 Comparative Buddhist Philosophy in South and East Asian Traditions. Sponsored session of the
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International Society for Buddhist Philosophy. Central Division of the American Philosophical
Association. Chicago, Illinois. February 21–24.

Rethinking Buddhism in Contemporary Japanese Philosophy. Sponsored session of the

International Society for Buddhist Philosophy. Central Division of the American Philosophical
Association. Chicago, Illinois. February 21–24.

Comparative East Asian Philosophy: Philosophical Dialogues between East Asian Traditions.
Sponsored session of the International Association for Japanese Philosophy. Eastern Division of
the American Philosophical Association. Savannah, Georgia. January 3–6.

Topics in Japanese Philosophy. Sponsored session of the International Association for Japanese
Philosophy. Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. Savannah, Georgia.
January 3–6.

2017 Buddhist Perspectives on Pedagogy. Sponsored session of the International Society for Buddhist
Philosophy. Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. Kansas City, Missouri.
March 1–4.

Pure Land Buddhist Thought and Action. Sponsored session of the International Society for
Buddhist Philosophy. Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. Kansas City,
Missouri. March 1–4.

Environmental Philosophy and Japanese Philosophy. Sponsored session of the International

Association for Japanese Philosophy. Eastern Division of the American Philosophical
Association. Baltimore, Maryland. January 4–7.

Japanese Confucian Philosophy. Sponsored session of the International Association for

Japanese Philosophy. Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. Baltimore,
Maryland. January 4–7.

2016 Peter K. J. Park’s Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the
Philosophical Canon (book panel). APA session of the Committee on Asian and Asian-American
Philosophies and Philosophers. Central APA. Chicago, Illinois. March 2–5.

Topics in Japanese Philosophy: Ancient to Contemporary. Sponsored session of the International

Association for Japanese Philosophy. Eastern Division of the American Philosophical
Association. Washington, D.C. January 6–9.

Jin Y. Park’s Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun (book panel). Sponsored session of the
International Association for Japanese Philosophy. Eastern Division of the American
Philosophical Association. Washington, D.C. January 6–9.

2015 What is “Phenomenology”? Asian Perspectives. Sponsored session of the Society for Asian and
Comparative Philosophy and the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle. Society for
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Atlanta, Georgia. October 10–14.

Hope and Japanese Philosophy. APA session of the Committee on Asian and Asian-American
Philosophies and Philosophers. Pacific APA, Vancouver, Canada. March.

2014 What Is Japanese Philosophy? Sponsored session of the International Association for Japanese
Philosophy. Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. December 27–30.

Topics in Japanese Philosophy. Sponsored session of the International Association for Japanese
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Philosophy. Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania. December 27–30.

Zen and the Practice of Philosophy at SPEP. Sponsored session of the Society for Asian and
Comparative Philosophy and the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle. Society for
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. New Orleans, Louisiana. October 23–25.

2013 New Work in Womanist-Buddhist Dialogue. Sponsored session of the Society for Asian and
Comparative Philosophy. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Eugene,
Oregon. October 24.

2011 Levinas and Asian Thought: Excerpts from the Book (book panel). North American Levinas
Society. Texas A&M University. College Station. May.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2021–present, University of North Texas (Associate)

Undergraduate

Hinduism (fall 2021), Buddhism, Daoism, Shintoism (fall 2021), World Religions (spring 2022)

2010–2021, Drake University (Assistant/Associate)

Core Courses (offered regularly)

Existential Films, Introduction to Buddhism, Introduction to Chinese Philosophy, Introduction to

Philosophy, Introduction to World Religions, Philosophy of Art, Religions of Des Moines: Buddhism,
Symbolic Logic

Selected Special Topics

Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, Care Ethics and the Human Right to Health, Chinese Philosophy and
Contemporary Art, Confucianism and Human Rights, Interfaith Understanding and Engagement,
Japanese Philosophy: Meiji to Present, Philosophy and Postcolonialism, Reading and Creating Comics,
Theories and Methods in Comparative Philosophy

Selected Independent Studies and Directed Readings

Classical Chinese Language, Cross-Cultural Studies in Logic, Daoism in the Guanzi, Modern Philosophy,
Postmodern Philosophy, Speculative Materialism, Sudden Enlightenment Debates

Honors Thesis and Capstone Supervision

2019 “The Right and the Good: Morality and President Carter’s Early Approach to Foreign Policy”
(honors thesis), Alexis Cruz
2018 “Will China Legalize Gay Marriage?” (Asian studies capstone), Penelope Hayek
2017 “Arakawa and Gins: A Salvific Realization” (philosophy capstone), Dominic Adduci
“The Green Mountains Are Walking: Zen and Environmental Ethics” (philosophy capstone),
Arthur Obst
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“Is Robocop a Buddhist: Cyborgs and Śūnyatā” (philosophy capstone), David Mascharka
2016 “Art and Technology: And the Artist of the Year is the Computer” (honors thesis), Sarah
Schoeberle
“Becoming Moral through Poetry” (philosophy capstone), Matthew Roth
“Entrenching Realism: The New Riddle of Induction and Underdetermination” (philosophy
capstone), Michael Radig
“Guiding Morality: The Magic of Music Education” (philosophy capstone), Shayl Wilson
“Philosophy, Medicine, and Culture” (philosophy capstone), Graham Isaacson
“Revisiting Human Rights: The Potential for Debate and Dialogue within Social Work” (philosophy
capstone), Devon France
2012 “Consciousness: Understanding and Living in Phenomenological Practice” (honors thesis), Brian
Johansen

2010 Chaminade University (Lecturer)

Introduction to Philosophy

2007–2009 University of Hawai‘i (Lecturer)

Introduction to Deductive Logic, Morals and Society

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

External

As project lead or main recipient

2019 Arts and Culture Grant ($1300). Japan Foundation of New York (declined due to Covid).

2018 Curriculum Development Grant ($1000). Interfaith Youth Core.

2015 Small Projects Grant ($2500). Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Philosophy and
Religion. Lilly Endowment Inc.

Summer Fellowship Program ($5000). Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Philosophy
and Religion. Lilly Endowment Inc.

As part of a project team

2020 Interfaith Leadership and Religious Literacy Grant ($287,280). Arthur Vining Davis
Foundation.

Campus Innovation Grant ($4000). Interfaith Youth Core.

2019 Interfaith Leadership and Religious Literacy Grant ($93,000). Arthur Vining Davis Foundation.

Drake University

2019 Charls Chair ($9500). Department of Philosophy and Religion (one-year endowed chair).

2018 Faculty Development Grant ($1700). College of Arts and Sciences.

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2017 Honors Program Teacher of the Year.

Faculty Development and Enrichment Grant ($1500). Office of the Provost.

Faculty Development Grant ($1300). College of Arts and Sciences.

Materials and Services Support Grant ($1500). Center for the Humanities.

2016 Green Fund ($2000). Center for the Humanities.

Faculty Development Grant ($1000). College of Arts and Sciences.

Drake International Grant ($1000). Drake International Center.

2015 Faculty Collaboration Grant ($2500).

Small Conference Grant ($5000). Center for the Humanities.

2014 Faculty Development Grant ($2000). College of Arts and Sciences.

Humanities Leadership Grant. Center for the Humanities.

2013 Faculty Development and Enrichment Grant. Office of the Provost.

Humanities Leadership Grant. Center for the Humanities.

Graduate

2008 Tasuku Harada Graduate Scholarship. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai‘i
(declined due to teaching commitments).

2007 Uehiro East Asian Essay Award. Department of Philosophy. University of Hawai‘i.

Center for Japanese Studies Fellowship. Center for Japanese Studies. University of Hawai‘i
(declined due to teaching commitments).

2006 Graduate Assistantship. Department of Philosophy. University of Hawai‘i. Renewed until

Spring 2009.

2005 Peace and Conflict Resolution Workgroup Award for Best Presentation. Peace and Conflict
Resolution Workgroup in conjunction with the East-West Center.

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. School of Pacific and Asian Studies. University
of Hawai‘i. Renewed until Spring 2008.

2003 East-West Center Degree Fellowship. East-West Center. Two-year term.

ACADEMIC SERVICE
External

Editorial
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2021 Assistant Editor. Journal of Japanese Philosophy (since 2014).

Series Editor (with Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach). Introductions to World Philosophies. Bloomsbury

(since 2018).

Series Editor (with Tim Knepper). Comparative Philosophy of Religion. Springer International
Publishing (since 2015).

Editorial Board. Philosophy East and West (since 2020).

Advisory Board. Journal of World Philosophies (since 2016).

Editorial Board. Journal of Communication and Religion (since 2014).

Organizational

2021 Program Committee of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association (one-
year term to 2022).

Program Committee of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association (three-
year term to 2023).

Steering Committee of the Philosophy of Religion Group. American Academy of Religion

(five-year term to 2024).

Session Organizer. For sponsored sessions of the International Society for Buddhist
Philosophy at the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association (since 2016).

2015 Steering Committee of the Buddhist Philosophy Group. American Academy of Religion
(five-year term to 2019).

Steering Committee of the Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Seminar. American Academy

of Religion (five-year term to 2019).

2014 Session Organizer. For sponsored sessions of the International Association for Japanese
Philosophy. Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association (to 2018).

2013 Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies. American Philosophical
Association (three-year term to 2016).

2012 Session Organizer. For sponsored sessions of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (to 2016).

Leadership

2021 Secretary/Treasurer. International Association of Japanese Philosophy (since 2014).

Treasurer. North American Levinas Society (since 2018).

Treasurer. Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle (since 2018).

Executive Board. North American Levinas Society (since 2016).

Co-founder. Society for Teaching Comparative Philosophy. Secretary (2013 to 2016). Vice-
President (since 2016).
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Advisory Board. The Comparison Project. Drake University (since 2012).

Anonymous Reviews: ASIANetwork Exchange, China Media Research, Comparative and Continental
Philosophy, Fordham Press, Frontiers of Philosophy in China, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Journal of
Communication and Religion, Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Journal of
Buddhist Philosophy, Journal of Communication and Religion, Palgrave, Parrhesia, Philosophy East and
West, Princeton University Press, Routledge, Rowman and Littlefield, SUNY Press, Tetsugaku.

Drake University

2020 Search Committee. Department of History.

2019 Director. Center for the Humanities (to 2021).

2018 Arts and Sciences Cabinet (two-year term to 2020).

2017 Faculty advisor. Drake Interfaith Youth Camp (to 2021).

2016 Search Committee. Rhetoric Program.

Arts and Sciences Council (two-year term to 2018).

2015 Faculty Mentor. Crew Scholars (one-year term).

Board of Directors. Center for the Humanities (three-year term to 2018).

Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee (three-year term to 2018). Chair (2016–17).

2014 Co-Director. The Comparison Project (to 2021).

Colloquium Series Director. Center for the Humanities (two-year term to 2016).

Search Committee. Department of History.

2013 Arts and Sciences Council (two-year term to 2015).

Search Committee. Department of English.

Search Committee. Department of Graphic Design.

2011 Asian Studies Program Working Group.

Diversity Committee (two-year term to Spring 2013).

WORKSHOPS AND CONSULTING

2022 Faculty lecturer for “The Imagination and Imaginal Worlds in Buddhism.” National Endowment for
the Humanities Summer Institute. Mangalam Institute. Berkeley, California. June 12–24.

2020 Facilitator for Teaching Hub workshop on “Integrating Asian Philosophies into Your Existing
Course Syllabi.” Sponsored by the American Association of Philosophy Teachers and the
American Philosophical Association. Central Division of the American Philosophical Association.
Chicago, Illinois. February 28.
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2019 Facilitator for workshop on “Academic/Nonprofit Interfaith Partnership.” Sponsored by Drake

University and the Des Moines Area Religious Council. American Academy of Religion. San
Diego, California. November 22.

Facilitator for Teaching Hub workshop on “Non-Western Philosophy for Undergraduate Ethics
Courses.” Sponsored by the American Association of Philosophy Teachers and the American
Philosophical Association. Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. Denver,
Colorado. February 21.

2017 Facilitator for the lecture course by Brian Shūdō Schroeder, “Between Earth and Our Nature:
Φύσις-Λόγοϛ, Place-Time, Time-Being.” Collegium Phaenomenologicum. Città di Castello, Italy.
July 24–28.

Facilitator for Teaching Hub walk-in teaching consultations, “One-on-One Consultation Sessions
on Issues in Teaching Philosophy.” Sponsored by the American Association of Philosophy
Teachers and the American Philosophical Association. Eastern Division of the American
Philosophical Association. Baltimore, Maryland. January 6.

2016 Facilitator for workshop on “Teaching Techniques for Comparative Philosophy.” Sponsored by the
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Honolulu, Hawai‘i. June 3.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2021 Annual Summer Program. International School for Jain Studies. July 15 to August 4.

2020 Workshop on Teaching Religious Diversity. Funded by the Wabash Center for Teaching and
Learning in Theology and Religion. Summer 2020 to Spring 2022.

2018 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute, “Buddhist East Asia: The Interplay of
Religion, the Arts, and Politics.” Asian Studies Development Program, East-West Center,
Honolulu. May 28–June 22.

2016 Culture and Language Across the Curriculum (workshop). Drake University.

2014 Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. 2014–15 Teaching and
Learning Workshop for Pre-Tenure Religion Faculty at Colleges and Universities. Wabash
College.

Writing Workshop. Staff Development Workshops. Drake University. May session.

CHIN 001: Beginning Chinese I. Instructor Cyndi Chen. Drake University. January Term.

2013 Drake University Learning Symposium: Creating Exceptional Learning Environments for 21st-
Century Learners. Sheraton West Des Moines. August 16.

Digital Storytelling Workshop. Drake University. May 29–31 and August 12–16.

2012 J-Conference. The J-Center of the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy. Drake University.
September 10–11.

Internationalization of Majors and Minors Workshop. Drake University. August 15.

Institute on Infusing Chinese and Japanese Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum. Asia
Studies Development Program. East-West Center, Honolulu. July 22 to August 11.
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2010 Collegium Phaenomenologicum (participant). Città di Castello, Italy. July 12–30.

MEMBERSHIPS
American Academy of Religion
American Philosophical Association
Asian Studies Development Program (Alumni Chapter)
Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle
East-West Center Association
International Association for Inoue Enryō Research
International Association for Japanese Philosophy
North American Levinas Society
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Society for Teaching Comparative Philosophy