Malcolm Keating

Curriculum vitae

Malcolm Keating

Philosophy Department
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
United States

Email: mkeating@smith.edu

Current academic position

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Smith College, USA, July 2024–present

Previous academic positions

  • Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow, August 2025–December 2025
  • Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, Smith College, USA, January 2024–June 2024
  • Associate Professor of Philosophy, Yale-NUS College, Singapore, June 2022–February 2024
  • Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Yale-NUS College, Singapore, June 2015–June 2022
  • Courtesy Joint Appointment, Philosophy, National University of Singapore, June 2016–February 2024

Education

  • PhD, Philosophy. University of Texas at Austin (2008–2015)
  • MA, Philosophy. University of Missouri – St. Louis (2004–2006)
  • BA, English/Spanish. Grove City College (1996–2000)

Areas of specialization

  • Indian Philosophy (especially Mīmāṃsā and Nyāya), Philosophy of Language

Areas of competence

  • Aesthetics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion

Publications

Monographs

  • 2025. Classical Sanskrit for Everyone: A Guide for Absolute Beginners. Hackett Publishing.
  • 2024. Reason in an Uncertain World: Nyāya Philosophers on Argumentation and Living Well. Oxford University Press.
  • 2019. Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Mukula’s “Fundamentals of the Communicative Function.” Bloomsbury Academic Publishing.

Edited volumes

  • 2024. Co-edited with Matthew R. Dasti. The Vindication of the World: Essays Engaging with Stephen Phillips. Routledge.
  • 2020. Controversial Reasoning in Indian Philosophy: Major Texts and Arguments on Arthâpatti. Bloomsbury Academic Publishing.

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Forthcoming. “Kumārila Bhaṭṭa on the First-Personal Pronoun.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. Accepted and scheduled for volume 126, issue 1.
  • Forthcoming. “Translating for the Undergraduate Classroom.” Philosophy East and West. Accepted and scheduled for volume 76, issue 4.
  • 2022. “Kumārila Bhaṭṭa and Pārthasārathi Miśra on First-and Higher-Order Knowing.” Philosophy East and West. 72 (2): 396–414.
  • 2022. “Debating with Fists and Fallacies: Vācaspati Miśra and Dharmakīrti on Norms of Argumentation.” International Journal of Hindu Studies. 26 (1): 63–87.
  • 2021. “The Pragma-Dialectics of Dispassionate Discourse: Early Nyāya Argumentation Theory.” Religions. Special Issue: Philosophical Issues in the Hindu Tradition, Global Impact, ed. Trichur S. Rukmani. Religions. 12 (10): 875. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12100875
  • 2019. “Metaphor or Delusion? A Mīmāṃsaka’s Response to Conceptual Metaphor Theory.” Philosophy East and West. 70 (2): 395–423.
  • 2017. “(Close) the Door; the King (is Going): The Development of Elliptical Resolution in Bhāṭṭa Mīmāṃsā.” Journal of Indian Philosophy. 45 (5): 911–38.
  • 2017. “Metonymy and Metaphor as Verbal Postulation: The Epistemic Status of Non-Literal Speech in Indian Philosophy.” Journal of World Philosophies. 2 (1). https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/923.
  • 2017. With Elisa Freschi. “How Do We Gather Knowledge through Language?” Journal of World Philosophies. 2 (1). https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/921 (50% co-author contribution).
  • 2015. “Thinking about Embedded Metaphors.” Journal of Pragmatics. 88: 19–26.
  • 2013. “The Cow is to Be Tied Up: Sort-Shifting in Classical Indian Philosophy.” History of Philosophy Quarterly. 30 (4): 311–31.
  • 2013. “Mukulabhaṭṭa’s Defense of Lakṣaṇā: How We Use Words to Mean Something Else, but Not Everything Else.” Journal of Indian Philosophy. 41 (4) 439–61. (Reprinted in Jonardon Ganeri, Indian Philosophy, Vol 4, “Being and Truth,” Taylor & Francis, 2016.)

Articles in edited volumes

  • 2025. “Untrained First Sights: Kumārila on Perceiving Universals.” Malcolm Keating. In Thinking without Borders: Essays in Honor of Arindam Chakrabarti, edited by Matthew MacKenzie, Amy Donahue, Anand Vaidya. 137–54.
  • 2024. “Following Phillips’s Lead: Fallacies, Critical Thinking, and Contemplation.” Matthew Dasti and Malcolm Keating. In The Vindication of the World: Essays Engaging with Stephen Phillips. (50% co-author contribution).
  • 2019. Translation. “Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa’s Elucidation of Epistemic Instruments and Their Objects.” In Controversial Reasoning in Indian Philosophy: Major Texts and Arguments on Arthâpatti. Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 111–26.
  • 2019. Translation. “Akṣapāda Gautama’s Nyāya-sūtra with Early Commentaries.” In Controversial Reasoning in Indian Philosophy: Major Texts and Arguments on Arthâpatti. Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 127–44.

Conference proceedings

  • “The Self Is a Sky-Flower: Kumārila and Diṅnāga on Non-Referring Terms.” In Sister Nivedita’s Interpretation of Swami Vivekananda and Cross-Cultural Multidisciplinary Philosophy, edited by Durga Basu, 97–121. Kolkata: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture.

Forthcoming articles in edited volumes

  • Forthcoming. July 2026. “The Metaphysics of Similarity in Kumārila Bhaṭṭa’s Ślokavārttika.” In Conceptualizing Categories: Texts and Context in Indian Philosophy: Festschrift in Honor of Professor ShashiPrabha Kumar, edited by Purushottama Billimoria, Agnieszka Rostalska, Devendra Singh, Renu K. Sharma. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/9783032162212

Peer-reviewed encyclopedia entries and annotated bibliographies

  • 2021. “Pramāṇa.” Invited contribution to The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion. Vol IV. Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro, eds. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • 2016, 2020. “The Literal/Non-Literal Distinction in Indian Philosophy.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edward N. Zalta, ed. First published Nov 26, 2016. Substantive revision Dec 3, 2020. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2021/entries/literal-nonliteral-india/
  • 2016, 2023. With Matthew R. Dasti. “Epistemology (Pramāṇas),” Oxford Bibliographies Online, Hinduism. Substantive revision 2023. (50% co-author contribution).
  • 2016, 2023. With Matthew R. Dasti. “Epistemology (Pramāṇas),” Oxford Bibliographies Online, Hinduism. Substantive revision 2023. (50% co-author contribution).

Works in progress

  • PCoeditor with Charles Goodman. Buddhist Philosophy and Its Critics: An Anthology of South Asian Sources. Several joint and single translations in progress.
  • Under review. “Kumārila Bhaṭṭa.” Oxford Bibliographies Online, Hinduism.
  • Series editor (Bloomsbury Academic Publishing). Reading Primary Sources in Asian Philosophy. Two volumes in preparation, two under review.

Book reviews

  • 2020. ShashiPrabha Kumar, “Categories, Creation and Cognition in Vaiśeṣika Philosophy.” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 43 (1): 139–41.
  • 2020. Ethan Mills, “Three Pillars of Skepticism in Classical India: Nāgārjuna, Jayarāśi, and Śrī Harṣa.” Journal of Dharma Studies 2: 225–27.
  • 2019. Keya Maitra, “The Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gītā: A Contemporary Introduction.” Philosophy East and West 69 (3). doi:10.1353/pew.2019.0075.
  • 2018. Roy Tzohar, “A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor.” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. August 2018. https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/a-yogacara-buddhist-theory-of-metaphor/
  • 2015. Amber Carpenter, “Indian Buddhist Philosophy.” Philosophy East and West 64 (4): 1000–3.
  • 2013. Christopher G. Framarin, “Desire and Motivation in Indian Philosophy, Routledge Hindu Studies.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 133 (1): 160–62.

Public philosophy

Refereed conference papers

  • November 24, 2024. “Kumārila Against Instrumental Falsehoods.” Hindu Philosophy Unit, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
  • August 18, 2022. “The Self is a Sky-Flower: Kumārila and Diṅnāga on Non-Referring Terms.” International Association of Buddhist Studies (XIXth Congress), Seoul National University, Korea.
  • March 12, 2021. “Why is a Haystack Not Like an Elephant? Similarity Judgments in Kumārila Bhaṭṭa’s upamānapariccheda.” Accepted to the American Oriental Society, Boston, MA. (Accepted March 20–23, 2020. Conference cancelled due to COVID-19.)
  • November 19, 2017. “Kumārila Bhaṭṭa on the Metaphor of Self.” Yogācāra Studies Unit: Reading Vasubandhu’s Triṃśikā and Its Commentaries, American Academy of Religion, Boston, MA.
  • November 19, 2017. “Conventional Truth, Metaphor, and Meaning.” Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Session, American Academy of Religion, Boston, MA.
  • June 3, 2016. “Is Ellipsis Completion Knowledge? Linguistic Interpretation in Classical Indian Philosophy.” International Conference on Ethno-Epistemology, Kanazawa, Japan.
  • May 30, 2016. “Putting Words in their Place: Elliptical Completion through Postulation.” East-West Philosopher’s Conference, University of Hawai’i-Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii..
  • October 1, 2015. “Mantras, Meaning, and the Mahāvākya: Explorations in Mīmāṃsā Pragmatics.” Annual Conference for the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy.
  • June 21, 2014. “From Talking about Particular Things to Reasoning about their General Names: The Realist-Nominalist Debate in Uddyotakara, Kumārila and Śāntarakṣita.” Annual Conference for the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy.
  • October 11, 2013. “Against Inference: Ānandavardhana on the Status of Suggestive Language.” New England Association for Asian Studies Conference, Bridgewater State University.
  • October 2012. “How Can I Know What You Mean? Implication, Inference, and Dhvani.” Annual Meeting for the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science.
  • April 2012. “Lakṣaṇā and Sort-Shifting in Mukula Bhaṭṭa’s Abhidhāvṛttimātṛkā.” Pacific APA, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy.

Invited talks

  • March 4, 2026. “Propositions in Indian Philosophy: Revisiting a Dogma.” Vassar College, Philosopher’s Holiday Lecture: Jamie Nisse Greenberg Memorial Lecture.
  • November 13, 2025. “Selves and Sky-flowers: Kumārila Bhaṭṭa on Metaphor and Nonexistents,” University of Oxford, Workshop in Ancient Philosophy.
  • November 12, 2025. “Different Words with the Same Meaning: Kumārila Bhaṭṭa on Synonymy,” Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Indian philosophy seminar.
  • November 10, 2025. “Kumārila on the First-personal Pronoun,” Aristotelian Society, London.
  • October 23, 2025. “Selves and Sky-flowers: Kumārila Bhaṭṭa on Metaphor and Nonexistents,” University of Stirling, Philosophy Department.
  • October 15, 2025. “Personal and Impersonal Testimony in Mīmāṃsā Epistemology,” ArtsLab: South Asian Coastal Connections and Disconnection Series, University of Glasgow.
  • October 1, 2025. “Self-knowledge and Pronominal Reference in South Asian Epistemology,” Philosophy Colloquium, University of Exeter.
  • September 18, 2025. “‘Everybody Lies’ and ‘Epistemically Innocent Until Proven Guilty’: A Puzzle in South Asian Epistemology,” Leverhulme Lecture for Cogito Seminar, University of Glasgow.
  • August 4, 2025. “Impersonal Testimony in South Asian Epistemology,” Comparative Philosophy Workshop, University of Aberdeen.
  • May 7, 2025. “Translation of Tantravārttika ad MS 1.4.23.” Kumārila Conference, University of Toronto.
  • April 21, 2025. “Translating for the Undergraduate Philosophy Classroom.” Keynote, workshop for Buddhist Philosophy and Its Critics: An Anthology of South Asian Sources. Yale University. Co-sponsored by South Asian Studies Council at Yale and Glorisun Global Buddhist Network.
  • February 25, 2025. “Talking about Nothing: Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, Metaphor, and Reference.” Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
  • July 10, 2024. “The Virtues of Debate.” Confucius-Aristotle Symposium. Convened by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Qufu and Beijing, China.
  • May 6, 2024. “Kumārila on the First Person,” Kumārila Conference, University of Toronto – Missasauga.
  • January 15, 2024. “On (Not) Telling it Like it Is: A Mīmāṃsā Defense of Comparison’s Irreducibility.” Invited Symposium: Testimony in Indian Philosophy. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division.
  • May 5, 2023. “Dispassionate Debate: Early Nyāya Philosophy on Avoiding Cognitive Biases.” Ethics of Argumentation Speaker Series (Argumentation Network of the Americas).
  • September 1, 2021. “Pragma-Dialectics and Early Nyāya Debate Theory.” Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran (online).
  • November 21, 2020. “Debating with Fists and Fallacies: Dharmakīrti and Vācaspati Miśra on the Norms of Argumentation.” Birkbeck University of London, Department of Philosophy Weekend Workshop (online).
  • January 23, 2020. “Pārthasārathi Miśra and Kumārila Bhaṭṭa on Intrinsic ‘Validity.’” Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.
  • January 22, 2020. “Secondary Meaning in Mukula Bhaṭṭa’s Abhidhāvṛttamātṛkā.” SOAS University of London.
  • February 12, 2019. “Similarity Judgments in Kumārila Bhaṭṭa: Why is an Elephant Not Like a Haystack?” Nanyang Technological University.
  • March 5, 2018. “Solving Poetic Puzzles: Mukula Bhaṭṭa against Ānandavardhana’s Theory of Suggestion.” India International Centre, New Delhi. Part of Dhvani Workshop, organized by Mrinal Kaul and Abhyas Trust.
  • March 4, 2018. “Metaphor or Delusion? Kumārila Bhaṭṭa on Figurative Language.” University of Delhi, Philosophy Department.
  • February 26, 2018. “Postulating Poetic Meanings: Arthāpatti in Mukula Bhaṭṭa’s Theory of Communication.” Jawaharlal Nehru University, Philosophy Department.
  • February 28, 2018. “Metaphor or Delusion? Kumārila Bhaṭṭa on Figurative Language.” Ashoka University, Philosophy Department.
  • January 1, 2018. “The Self is a Sky-Flower: Buddhists and Mīmāṃsā on Non-Referring Terms.” International Seminar, The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, India.
  • April 30, 2017. “Metaphor or Delusion? Kumārila Bhaṭṭa on the Status of Figurative Language.” Keynote, Quadrangle Graduate Conference in Asian Philosophy, National Chengchi University, Taipei.
  • October 15, 2016. “Knowing What is Elided.” Underwood International College at Yonsei University, Seoul.
  • June 10, 2016. “Is Ellipsis Completion Knowledge? Putting Words in their Place through Postulation.” Kyoto University Department of Philosophy.

Awards and fellowships

  • 2024 – Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow. Awarded competitive £45,290 award to visit for a period of five months.
  • 2019 – Principal Investigator: Competitive Internal Grant, Yale-NUS College: Awarded SG$11,000 grant for “Comparison in Hindu Philosophy,” research on book about Hindu philosopher Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (ca. 700 CE) during academic study leave (AY2019–20, semester 2).
  • 2019 – Principal Investigator: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend: Awarded US$6000 competitive grant for research and leading to the publication of a book about Hindu philosopher Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (ca. 700 CE), which will include select English translations.
  • 2018 – Teaching Innovation Grant, Yale-NUS College: Awarded SG$3735 competitive grant to support a Philosophy Major impact assessment via student survey methods.
  • 2017 – Competitive Internal Grant, Yale-NUS College: Grant for tenure-track faculty first books to support a workshop hosted by the Harvard University, South Asian Studies department on Abhidhāvṛttamātṛkā translation and philosophical commentary: Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy.
  • 2017 – Principal Investigator: Competitive Internal Grant, Yale-NUS College: Awarded a two-year, SG$49,500 grant to support an edited volume of translations and essays on the topic of arthāpatti, an instrument of knowledge in classical Indian epistemology.
  • 2016 – JY Pillay Fellowship, Yale-NUS College: Awarded a two-year, SG$20,000 fellowship as part of the J Y Pillay Global-Asia Programme at Yale- NUS, a programme which enables the design and development of innovative academic and student programs that integrate Western and Asian ideas and cultures.
  • 2015 – Travel Grant, American Philosophical Association: Competitive grant to attend and participate in the Teaching and Learning Seminar for early career scholars at the American Association of Philosophy Teachers’ 20th Biennial International Workshop-Conference.

Conference participation

  • April 21–22, 2025. Consulting organizer, “Buddhist Philosophy and Its Critics: An Anthology of South Asian Sources.” Yale University. Book manuscript workshop.
  • November 24, 2024. Panel Moderator, “Abhidharma and Yogācāra,” Yogācāra Studies Unit, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
  • August 4–5, 2022. Organizer with Ben Blumson (NUS), “Indian and Analytic Approaches to Similarity.” Yale-NUS College and National University of Singapore (online). A cross-cultural workshop on the metaphysics and epistemology of similarity, resemblance, and comparison.
  • July 19, 2022. Organizer with Teresa Kouri Kissel (ODU), “Approaches to Argumentation.” Old Dominion University. A cross-cultural workshop on theories of argumentation.
  • August 13–17, 2018. Organizer, “Workshop on arthāpatti.” Yale-NUS College. Book workshop for contributors to Controversial Reasoning (Bloomsbury Academic 2020).
  • January 7, 2016. Eastern APA Committee Session: “Building Bridges in Indian Philosophy: Across Traditions and World-Views.” Panel Organizer and Chair. For the APA Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies.

Teaching experience

Smith College

  • PHI 127: Introduction to Indian Philosophy
  • PHI 233: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
  • PHI 253: Topics in Indian Philosophy: Buddhists and Brahmins
  • PHI 258: Topics in Philosophy of Language: Metaphor
  • PHI 320: Fiction

University of Glasgow

  • PHIL4070: Classical Indian Philosophy: Language, Knowledge, and Reality (designed module with instructor of record and gave multiple lectures in Semester 2, 2025)

Yale-NUS College

Undergraduate courses

  • YCC 1113, 1114: Philosophy and Political Thought 1 & 2
  • YHU 2315: Classical Indian Philosophy
  • YHU 3261: Analogical Reasoning & Metaphor
  • YHU 3350: Buddhists and Brahmins
  • YHU 3267: Classical Indian Philosophy of Language
  • YHU 3297: Debate & Reasoning in Indian Philosophy
  • YHU 3372: Global Theories of Metaphor
  • YHU 3330: Hinduism, Nationalism, and the Bhagavad Gītā in the 20th Century
  • YHU 3350: Slurs, Insults, and Hate Speech
  • YHU 4219: Doing Things with Words
  • YHU 4103: Philosophy Capstone Seminar

Independent studies

  • Introduction to Sanskrit Language
  • Introduction to Analytic Philosophy of Language
  • Fiction and Fictionalisms
  • Vasubandhu’s Triṃśikā or Thirty Verses (on Consciousness-Only)
  • Readings in Sanskrit

Other Institutions

  • World Philosophy (University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Instructor, 2014)
  • Introduction to Philosophy (University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Instructor, 2014)
  • Moral Reasoning (St. Edward’s University, Adjunct Instructor, 2015)
  • Online Introduction to Philosophy (City Colleges of Chicago, Adjunct Instructor, 2008)
  • Online Logic (Elgin Community College, Adjunct Instructor, 2007)
  • World Religions (Forest Park Community College, Adjunct Instructor, 2007)

Other teaching experience

  • Logic, Johns Hopkins University, CTY Summer Program (Los Angeles, CA) (2013, 2014)
  • Sanskrit Language Tutor, Private (Austin, TX) (2010–2014)

Student supervision

Smith College Special Studies: Fall 2024, Spring 2025

  • Helke, T. (Doctoral) “Philosophy of Conditionals,” National University of Singapore. (Committee Co-Supervisor, 2016–2018)
  • Yale-NUS College Philosophy Major Capstone: 2017–18 (1), 2018–19 (2), 2019–20 (1), 2020–21 (2), 2021–22 (2), 2022–23 (3)
  • NUS Senior Thesis: 2022–23 (1)

Other teaching and lectures

  • March 7, 2019. “Skepticism about Philosophy in Late Classical India,” discussion with Ethan Mills, Yale-NUS Philosophy Society and Bras Basah Open School of Theory.
  • February 14, 2019. “Knowledge Beyond Sense-Perception: Inference in the Indian Philosopher Annaṃbhaṭṭa” National University of Singapore, Tembusu College, Fellow’s Tea.
  • April 3, 2018. Guest Lecture, “The Problem of Empty Terms in Indian & Comparative Philosophy,” PH3204, Issues in Indian Philosophy (Instructor: Sarindranath Tagore), National University of Singapore.
  • November 8, 2017. “Philosophy of Language and Internet Memes,” Philosophy Café, Yale-NUS College.
  • October 19, 2016. “Star Trek and Philosophy,” Philosophy Café, Yale-NUS College, with Fabian Geier.

Pedagogical training and workshops

  • Fall 2014 – Leadership Certificate in Inclusive Classrooms from UT Austin.
  • July 2014 – Teaching and Learning Seminar: American Association of Philosophy Teachers’ 20th Biennial International Workshop-Conference.

Service to the discipline

  • Copyeditor, APA Blog, American Philosophy Association: January 2026–present
  • Steering Committee Member, Hindu Philosophy Unit, American Academy of Religion: January 2025–present.
  • Coeditor with Ben Blumson: Asian Journal of Philosophy topical collection, “Resemblance,” February 2024–present.
  • General Editor: Bloomsbury Academic Press, Book Series: Reading Primary Sources in Asian Philosophies, August 2023–present.
  • Book Review Editor: Philosophy East & West, May 2020–August 2023.
  • Memberships: American Philosophical Association, American Academy of Religion, American Oriental Society, International Association of Buddhist Studies
  • Refereeing: Swiss National Science Foundation (2025), Israel Science Foundation (2025), Asian Journal of Philosophy (2025), Journal of Dharma Studies (2024, 2025 x2), Broadview Press, Routledge Press, British Journal of the History of Philosophy (2024); Ergo (2022, 2025 x 2); Social Epistemology, Synthese (2022); Austrian Science Fund, Synthese (2021); Oxford University Press, Theoria (2020); Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophy East and West (2019, 2025); Journal of Pragmatics (2018); Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, Sophia (2017); Journal of World Philosophies (2015); Erkenntnis, Journal of Comparative Philosophy (2011).
  • Contributor: Indian Philosophy Blog, a scholarly group blog, 2014–2021.

Institutional service

Collegewide committees and service

  • 2022–2022. Committee on Faculty Affairs
  • 2021–2023. Minor Advisor, Global Antiquity
  • 2018–2022. Advisory Committee on Language Studies
  • 2018–2022. Student Support Team (team of staff & faculty to assist student sexual assault survivors with resources)
  • 2016–2018. Research Committee

Philosophy major/institutional service

  • August 2024–present. Major Advisor to Philosophy Majors
  • August 2024–present. Racial Justice Action Planning Departmental Liaison
  • 2024–present. Linguistics Self-constructed Major Advisor
  • August 2024–June 2025. Philosophy Major Secretary
  • January 2024–June 2025. Study Abroad Advisor
  • 2020–2023. Capstone Coordinator, Philosophy Faculty
  • 2019–2021. Philosophy Essay Prize Coordinator
  • 2017–2018. Philosophy Café Organizer
  • 2016–2017. Philosophy Faculty Speaker Invitation Coordinating

Other service

  • 2024–2026. Volunteer, Hampshire Support Alliance, Northampton, MA

Pedagogical service

  • 2019–2021. Center for Teaching and Learning Affiliate (assists with remote teaching support, facilitating faculty workshops, creating pedagogical guides)
  • Organizer and Moderator, “Critical Conversations: Contention and Belonging in the Classroom,” Yale-NUS Center for Teaching and Learning April 22, 2021.
  • Author, “Peer Observation for Online Teaching,” for Center for Teaching and Learning, September 2020.
  • August 23, 2018. Presenter, Yale-NUS College Center for Teaching and Learning “Teaching & Tonics” session: “Starting a New Semester: Creating an Inclusive Classroom Environment.”
  • 2015–2017. Assisted with Yale-NUS College Sanskrit Language teleconference course development.

Languages

Sanskrit (advanced reading), Spanish (intermediate reading/speaking/writing), English (fluent)