The Core is an opportunity to inquire into the fundamental aspects of being and our relationship with God, nature and our fellow human beings.
Popular Searches
The Institute of Philosophic Studies has as its purpose the renewal of the tradition of philosophic discourse and the recovery of the Christian intellectual tradition. The areas of concentration currently offered are in literature, philosophy and politics.
IPS Philosophy
Loyola Marymount University (BA, History with Philosophy minor; MA, Philosophy Masters)
Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Virtue Ethics, Medieval Philosophy
Critical Thinking in Psychology (January 2024 - May 2024; at Loyola Marymount University).
Graduate Student Assistant for Dr. Scott Roniger and Teaching Assistant for Dr. Christopher Kazcor at Loyola Marymount University.
Katzaroff, Giovanni Nikolai. 2024. "Dao, the Godhead, and the Wandering Way: Daoism and Eckhart’s Mystical Theology" Religions 15, no. 9: 1098. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15091098
IPS Politics
- Louisiana State University (BA Political Science) - The Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya (MA Counter Terrorism and National Security Studies, Capstone: How Cyberspace Has Changed Concepts of Violence for Nation-States and Terrorist Organizations.))
Just War Theory and Cyberwarfare, The Evolution of Violence and Technology, National Security Policy, Privacy and Digital Governance Policy, Ethics of AI and Emerging Technologies.
Politics
University of Dallas, BA 2020. University of Dallas, MA 2024.
American Politics, Political Theory, Hegel, the early 20th Century Progressives, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism, and Ancient Politcal Thought.
Principles of American Politics
IPS Literature
University of Dallas (BA, English; BA, Theology); University of Tennessee (MS, English Education); Augustine Institute (MA, Theology)
Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Education and their intersection
Lit Trad I
Aquinas College, Nashville, TN - 2 years; Frassati Catholic High School, Spring, TX - 1 year; Middle School (Nashville, TN; Greenville, SC; Stillwater, MN) - 9 years
Texas Tech University (BM, Music Performance); The University of Texas, Tyler (BA English Literature and Language); University of Dallas (Master of Humanities)
Political philosophy, myth, literary criticism, genre
N/A (full time HS administrator)
(HS only) AP English Literature and Composition, AP Psychology
(working on a title) "The Political Imagination in the Fiction of CS Lewis"
"The Rhetoric of Storytelling in The Golden Ass" (Ramify, 2013)
N/A
Harvard College (AB, Classics); University of Dallas (MA, English)
Thomas More’s engagement with Lucian; Homer; Conrad; Donne; Herbert; creative writing (poetry)
English and Latin at Cistercian Preparatory School since 2016
“Imitation and Correction in Thomas More’s Lucian” (in progress)
“Interpretive Ironies in More’s Translations of Two Lucianic Dialogues,” Moreana 61.1 (2024); “‘A Show of Confidence and Authority’: Philopseudes and More’s Lucian,” Moreana 61.2 (2024); “Voices at Play: The Polyphonic Structure of More’s Epigrams,” Moreana 62.2 (2025); poems have appeared in The New Criterion, EcoTheo Review, and The Classical Outlook
BA Calvin College 2020; MA University of Arizona 2022
American Founding, Progressive Era
Seven Arts of Language
Braniff 120
Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (BA, Liberal Arts)
Core Texts, Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology, Philosophical Hermeneutics, Continental Philosophy of Language
PHI 2323: The Human PersonPHI 1301: Philosophy and the Ethical LifeGST 1110: Writing Principles
Wojtyła Graduate Teaching Fellow - University of Dallas, 2025–2026Adjunct Instructor - University of Dallas, 2023–presentSeminar Leader - Arete: An Introduction to the Classics, 2024–presentWriting Lab Tutor - University of Dallas, 2022–present
“When ‘Things Fall Apart’: Thinking Through Absurdity with Arendt and Aseyev.” Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 8, no. 3 (2024): 111-127.
Braniff 340
BA Philosophy, Religion, and Great Books, University of Texas at Austin; MA Philosophy, University of St. Thomas
Catholic political thought, American politics, political economy, law
History of Philosophy III, IV (Early Modern, Late Modern and Analytic)
Speculum Pontificum: Robert Bellarmine and the Political Powers of the Papacy
See CV for recent/upcoming publications
Philosophy
BA in Philosophy and Theology from Belmont Abbey College, and Master’s in Philosophy at the University of South Carolina
Scholastic Metaphysics
I’ve taught Communicating Moral Issues (Ethics + Speech Class), sessions of Introduction to Logic, and Ethics (starting this semester)
2 years as a TA at USC1 year as an ESL Teacher in Dallas
University of Dallas, MA Politics; University of Dallas, MA Humanities (Thesis: "Redeeming Language: Dante's Account of Language and Human Nature in De Vulgari Eloquentia"); Patrick Henry College, BA Government
Augustine, language, patristic and medieval political thought, the family, and the land
Principles of American Politics, Literary Tradition I, Writing Principles
The Significance of Language in Augustine’s Political Thought
“Republics, Language, and Love: The Political Significance of Babylon in De civitate Dei.” Studia Patristica (2026). Accepted for publication. “‘All the Mighty World of Eye and Ear’: The Epistemological Claims of Hearing and Seeing in Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey.’” Ramify 10.1 (2023).
IPS-Literature
MA-Literature, University of Dallas; STB-Theology, Saint John Vianney Seminary; BA-Philosophy, Mount Angel Seminary
19th Century Poetry, Philosophy, Theology
Lit Trad 1, Lit Trad 2 (University of Dallas); Great Catholic Figures, Search for Truth, Philosophical Readings: Political Philosophy (Nazareth Seminary)
Great Hearts, Chandler, AZ and Irving, TX (2017-2021); University of Dallas (2021-2023); Nazareth Seminary, Phoenix, AZ (2024-2026)
Life-affirming Drama in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
- University of Dallas (BA, English) - University of Dallas (MA, English, Thesis: "Heresy and Vice in Thomas More's *Dialogue of Sir Thomas More, Knight*: The Role of Sloth, Pride, and Malice")
I am interested in the Early Modern period of English literature, especially the thought and writings of Thomas More. I am fascinated by the interaction between content and form in his humanist works and dialogues.
ENG 1301 Literary Tradition I (Classical Epic Poetry: *The Iliad*, *The Odyssey*, *The Aeneid*, *Sir Gawain and the Green Knight*)
"'Proper values … with the sweetness of verses': More’s educational project in the Coronation Epigrams." *Moreana* 62.2 (2025): 243–255. With John F. Boyle, "Epigram 264: Thomas More’s letter to his children," *Moreana* 62.2 (2025): 136–142.
Institute of Philosophic Studies, Politics
B.A. Concordia University Chicago, Language Science, Theology (Thesis: The Language of Worldview: John Dewey and Robert Maynard Hutchins; Advisor: Thomas Korcok); M.Div. Concordia Theological Seminary, Pastoral Ministry; M.A. University of Dallas, Humanities (Classical Education)
Statesmanship, Theology, The Liberal Arts, Philosophy of Education, Pedagogy
Concordia University Wisconsin, Adjunct Professor; Concordia University Chicago, Adjunct Professor; Messiah Lutheran Classical Academy, Teacher; Peace Lutheran Academy, Headmaster; Faith Lutheran School, Latin Teacher
Publications and Presentations: "Let No One Ignorant of Geometry Enter The Seminary?" Lutheranism & The Classics VIII: Education. October 2025. "Lady Rhetoric: the Commander, the Teacher, the Parent." Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education: July 2024. "Just Man: Socrates’ Hesitation." Classical Lutheran Education Journal (CLEJ), Volume XV: July 2023, pp. 10-18. CCLE Press. "Grammatical Sleight of Hand with a Boring Bridesmaid." Classical Lutheran Education Journal (CLEJ), Volume XIV: October 2022, pp. 45-50. CCLE Press. "A Vision for the Lutheran Day School: Socrates’ Image of the Good vs. Isaiah’s Vision of the Crucified God." Concordia Catechetical Academy, Symposium. Sussex, Wisconsin, June 2022.
Languages: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German
Wyoming Catholic College (BA, Liberal Arts)
Ancient political philosophy, medieval political philosophy, metaphysics
Austin College (BA, Political Science/Classics)
Political Philosophy/American Politics
IPS Philosophy PhD
M.A. in Philosophy, concentration in Classical Languages (Universidad de los Andes, Chile); B.A. in Literature (Universidad de los Andes, Chile); B.A. in Philosophy (Universidad de los Andes, Chile)
Ancient Philosophy, Phenomenology and Hermenutics, Classical Rhetoric
Ancient Greek; Introduction to Philosophy; General Ethics; Philosophical Anthropology; Medical Anthropology; Classic Literature (Homer); Core Texts on Love and Death
- "Death in Thomas More's Epigrammata," Morena, v. 62 n. 2 (2025): 184–199 / - "Los cursos de grandes libros en la universidad contemporánea: educación liberal, formación moral y educación cívica," COMPRENDRE: Revista catalana de filosofia vol. 27 n. 2 (2025): 7–25 / - Review of Una Educación Liberal. Elogio de Los Grandes Libros [A Liberal Education. In Praise of Great Books], by José María Torralba, Church, Communication and Culture vol. 9 n. 2 (2024): 495–99 / - With Vicente Silva Beyer, “Meditation and Mysticism in T.S. Eliot’s ‘East Coker’,” Teoliteraria v.11 n. 25 (2021): 222–248 / - “Bird, word and earth: T.S. Eliot and Leonel Lienlaf,” in: Remontar el vuelo, Paula Baldwin (ed.), RIL, 2021, 89–100 / - Review of Ningún hombre es una isla, by Ernesto González Barnert, Latin American Literature Today 13 (2020) / - “The plenitude of word in human life,” in: Sobre los tipos y grados de conocimiento, Carlos A. Casanova & Ignacio Serrano (eds.), RIL, 2018, pp. 259–276 / - “Apology of the Christianizing interpretation of Virgil’s Eclogue 4,” Andina. Revista de Investigación de estudiantes y profesores de la Universidad de los Andes 1 (2017): 161–177
Franciscan University of Steubenville (BA, English)
The intersection of liturgy and literature, T.S. Eliot, Graham Greene
Literary Tradition I, Literary Tradition II
Adjunct Professor of English, University of Dallas
Ave Maria University (B.A., Philosophy; theology minor, 2012); Western State Colorado University (M.A. Education - Educational Administration, 2017); University of Dallas (Institute M.A. Philosophy, 2022)
Natural Law; Medieval Philosophy & Theology; The intersection between metaphysics and ethics; Philosophy of Love; Philosophy of Technology.
Philosophy and the Ethical Life (PHI 1301); Philosophy of Being (PHI 3311)
Adjunct Instructor, University of Dallas (Spring 2023 - Spring 2025).
Franciscan University, BA Philosophy and Political Science; Augustine Institute, MA Theology
Research interests include Thomistic and Aristotelian metaphysics, the philosophical import of Fyodor Dostoevsky, the phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion, and the metaphysics of excess.
Philosophy and the Ethical Life (University of Dallas)
From 2017-2019, taught philosophy at a small school in China.
Regent University (BA, Government)
History of Christian Political Thought; Anarchism; Social Contract Theory
Wyoming Catholic College (B.A. Liberal Arts)
Literary and aesthetic theory of Jacques Maritain. Scholastic views on artistic creation. Genre theory of Louise Cowan. Literary criticism of the American South. William Shakespeare. Platonic views of poetry and musical inspiration.
Writing Tutor at the University of Dallas. 3 Years teaching middle - high school literature seminars.
(1) At Aquinas College (in Grand Rapids, MI) in 2017, I earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) with majors in Philosophy, French language, and Political Science and a minor in Theology. (2) At the Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte (Institute of Philosophy) of KU Leuven (in Leuven, Belgium) where, in 2021, I earned a degree titled Bachelor of Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (BA); in 2023, I earned a degree titled Master of Philosophy, Master of Arts (MA); and in 2025 earned a degree titled Research Master of Philosophy, Master of Arts (MA).
The Phenomenological Tradition; Phenomenological Thomism; Philosophical Psychology; Metaethics; Virtue Ethics
Between 2017 and 2020, I instructed English language, literature, and composition for the Center of Modern Foreign Languages at the Ukrainian Catholic University (in Lviv, Ukraine); at the same university, I was also a teaching assistant in Theology and Church History courses.
IPS - Literature
Texas State University, M.A. Literature; Dallas Baptist University, B.A. English
Twentieth-Century Literature, philosophy of history, and solidarity
i. Review of The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England by Nicholas Jenkins, Christian Scholar's Review, forthcoming; “The Poetics of Humiliation: Revisiting W.H. Auden’s The Shield of Achilles.” Immersed: A Journal of Faith, Arts, and Letters, vol. 1, no.1, November 2025, pp. 42-49.; “The Poetics of Conversion: Theological Themes in the Poetry of W.H. Auden.” Christianity and Literature, vol. 71, no. 3, September 2022, pp. 344-359.
#NAME?
Philosophy of Education; Imagination
Various Middle and High School Humanities Courses
13 Years
“Portraits of Pain and Wrath: Translating the Name of Odysseus.” Ramify 10, no. 1 (2021). ramify.org/currentissue.
St. John's College, Annapolis (MA Liberal Arts)
Trivium, Rhetoric in the Renaissance, C.S. Lewis, Dickens
ENG 1302 Literary Tradition II: Dante, Milton, and Lyric PoetryGST 1110 Writing PrinciplesGST 1345 Seven Arts of Language (Mentored)
Attended (did not graduate) Johns Hopkins Graduate School of EducationResident Teacher in a Baltimore Title 1 K-8 (~1 year)Instructor of Advanced ESL (2+ years)Adjunct Graduate Faculty at the University of Dallas (2 semesters)
Thomas Aquinas College, BA in the Liberal Arts
Philosophy of Life, Aristotle, Bernard Lonergan, Kant
n/a
IPS - Politics
Wyoming Catholic College - Bachelor of Arts in the Liberal Arts '23
Personalism, Ratzinger, American Founding
