I've been teaching at the Essex Campus since 1991, and have been an Associate Professor of Philosophy since 1996. In addition to Introduction to Philosophy, I teach Ethics and Logic. Every other year I run an Honors section of 101, and from time to time I teach a Chinese Philosophy course and a Buddhism course. In addition to teaching at CCBC I am an Adjunct Instructor in The Language and Literature Department at The Maryland Institute College of Art where I teach 2 courses: History of Buddhism and Classical Chinese Philosophy.
My research interests are in Buddhism, especially Chinese Buddhism, and Early Philosophical Daoism, especially the Daoist classic, The Zhuangzi. Last year I was on sabbatical, and was invited to study at Princeton University as a visiting fellow in the Department of East Asian Studies. I audited a course in Classical Chinese that was taught in Modern Mandarin, and did research for a paper I recently published, "Zhuangzi, Mysticism, and the Rejection of Distinctions."
I like to travel and take pictures, and have been to Greece, Egypt, Mexico, and Japan. I lived in Taiwan for almost four years, and once spent about a month hitch-hiking through cental and south-western China.