Our Faculty

Torgeir Fjeld is a writer, publisher, and educational administrator with PhDs in Philosophy (European Graduate School, 2017) and Cultural Theory (Roehampton University, 2012). His latest books include Introducing Ereignis: Philosophy, Technology, Way of Life (2022) and Rock Philosophy (2019). Fjeld regularly publishes articles in journals such as Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, International Journal of Žižek Studies, and Journal of Silence Studies in Education. Fjeld serves as Head of the Ereignis – …

Dr. Adam Staley Groves is an experienced university lecturer specializing in the development of undergraduate, interdisciplinary education. Originally from the Midwestern United States, Adam has resided in Singapore for over a decade. Adam holds PhDs in Modern Thought from the University of Aberdeen (2016) and in Philosophy from European Graduate School (2011). He is currently a Lecturer with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and previously a Fellow of Tembusu College at the National U – …

Zachary Isrow is a Tenure-track faculty member at Hudson Valley Community College. Previously, he served as Associate Professor and Assistant Department Chair of Humanities at Beacon College. Born in Germany, he earned his BA from Aurora University in Philosophy, a Masters from University of Chicago, and a PhD in Humanities (Philosophy and Anthropology) from Alma Mater Europaea. He is finishing a second PhD in Behavioral Economics at Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Poznaniu. He is the author of many a – …

Prof. Andrew Tyler Jorn holds a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard University and a PhD from Warwick University. He taught at the University of North Dakota, Warwick University, and George Washington University before taking up a position at Japan International University in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan (formerly Tsukuba Gakuin University). Andrew's research is situated at the intersection of post-Kantian European philosophy, psychoanalysis, political economy, and disability theory, an – …

Dr Frank G. Karioris is an educator based in San Francisco. They have worked at a wide number of institutions, including: the American University of Central Asia, ELTE, Central European University, and the University of Pittsburgh. Their work interrogates issues of gender & masculinities and institionality. This work has been published widely. In addition to their academic work they are a working poet, published in Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, Collective Unrest, Nashville Review, and Berkeley – …

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren is the Director of Wild Studios Consulting and Creative Productions LLC, and, in 2025-26 he served as the Eminent Scholar in Humanities Chair at the University of Alabama: Huntsville. Having retired in 2022 as Professor and Director of the University of Hong Kong’s Common Core, Gray continues to serve as an Honorary Professor of Comparative Literature, where he teaches for the MALCS (Masters of Literature & Cultural Studies). Prior to HKU, he was the inaugural Vice-Cha – …

Alex Taek-Gwang Lee is Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies and the Global Centre for Technology in Humanities at Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He has previously served as a Guest Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and as a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics at the University of Brighton (UK). His English-language publications include Communism Aft – …

Dr. Mehdi Parsa was Professor at Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran, where he taught contemporary European philosophy. His PhD is from the University of Bonn. He specializes on contemporary European philosophy.

Prof. Dror Pimentel teaches at the Visual and Material Dept. and at the M.A. Program for Policy and Theory of the Arts. His main areas of expertise are continental philosophy, phenomenology, aesthetics and semiotics. His publications include: The Dream of Purity: Heidegger with Derrida (Magnes Press, 2009 [Hebrew]); Aesthetics (Bialik Institute, 2014 [Hebrew]); Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); Aesthethics: Of Hospitality in Art (Bialik Institute, 2024 [Hebrew]); – …