I am a PhD candidate studying philosophy at Princeton University.

Before coming to Princeton, I earned my MA in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Prior to that, I completed a BFA in film & television and philosophy at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

I worked for a few years as a digital artist in the film and television industry before returning to graduate school to pursue philosophy. My work as an artist can be viewed here.

As a philosopher, I have broad interests in both contemporary philosophy and the history of philosophy. I am especially interested in philosophy of language, both in contemporary debates and in Plato’s and Aristotle’s thoughts on language. In contemporary philosophy, this has led me to explore issues at the intersection of philosophy of language and epistemology, including the attitudes we take in response to evidence and what lexical semantics can tell us about them. In ancient Greek philosophy, it has led me to work on figurative language, especially metaphor, as well as the philosophy of poetry.