Assistant Professor of Chinese Philosophy
About
Current research interests:
Sonya is a scholar of classical Chinese philosophy and early modern European philosophy. Thematically, her research focuses on conceptions of human and animal identity, as well as intersections of categories of animality, gender, and ethnicity, in different philosophical texts. Sonya is particularly interested in examining the grammar of different types of reasoning that establishes humans as exceptional, if not superior, and how different formulations of human exceptionality inform conceptualizations of differences within human communities. Owing to the fact that her research draws from different philosophical traditions, Sonya is also interested in methodologies of intercultural philosophy.
Teaching interests:
At the undergraduate level I teach courses about classical Chinese philosophy and literature. In the past I have also taught survey courses in philosophy and thematic courses on animality and gender theory.
