Notes on Contributors
Dr. Stacey E. Ake
Stacey E. Ake holds PhDs in Philosophy and Biology, and is a Teaching Professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA. She enjoys Danish poetry, especially Dan Turrell, Henrik Nordbrandt, and Soren Ulrik Thomsen.
Dr. Peter Joseph Fritz
Peter Fritz is professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, where he teaches Catholic theology, the history of modern Christianity, and interdisciplinary courses on capitalism and visual arts. He is co-editor (with Mark Freeman) of the forthcoming volume Educating Anxiety: Psychological, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives on Teaching and Learning (Routledge).
Joshua Griffiths
Joshua Griffiths recently graduated from The University of Western Australia. He is particularly interested in the history of ideas, history of emotions, and the interplay between philosophy, faith, and science.
Ville Hämäläinen
Ville Hämäläinen is a doctoral researcher at Tampere University, Finland. He is currently finishing his dissertation, in which the study of fictionality and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of polyphony are conjoined to examine Søren Kierkegaard’s rhetorical poetics.
Dr. Alexander Jech
Alexander Jech is professor of the practice of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His interests include moral philosophy, ancient philosophy, the philosophy of literature, Kierkegaard, and Tocqueville. He has published a translation, with notes and glossary, of Fear and Trembling from Hackett Publishing (2024), and is editor of Elizabeth M.’s The Hurricane Notebook: Three Dialogues on the Human Condition (2019).
Dr. Marius Timmann Mjaaland
Marius Mjaaland is professor for the philosophy of religion at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway. Mjaaland is the author of Autopsia: Self, Death and God after Kierkegaard and Derrida (De Gruyter, 2008) and has published books and articles on Kierkegaard, phenomenology, ecology, ethics, religion, and philosophies of life and death. He is currently leading an interdisciplinary project at the University of Oslo called DEMOCRISIS: Democracy and Climate Crisis.
Niels Peter Bock Nielsen
Peter Bock Nielsen is a doctoral student at Lund University, Sweden, and the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen. He earned a Master’s degree in Russian Language and Culture from the University of Copenhagen and St. Petersburg State University.
Dr. James P. Rasmussen
James Rasmussen is the author of Charis and Charisma: Max Weber and the Aesthetic-Philosophical Discourse on Grace from Winckelmann to Nietzsche (De Gruyter, 2026). He is Professor of German at the Air Force Academy.
Dr. Anthony Rudd
Anthony Rudd taught philosophy at St. Olaf College, MN, USA, until his retirement in 2022. He is the author, among other books, of Kierkegaard and the Limits of the Ethical (1993), Self, Value and Narrative: a Kierkegaardian Approach (2012) and The Philosophy of Camus: Through a Kierkegaardian Lens (2024) all published by Oxford University Press.
Dr. Michael Nathan Steinmetz
Michael Steinmetz is Assistant Professor of Theology at Missouri Baptist University. He is the author of The Severed Self: The Doctrine of Sin in the Works of Søren Kierkegaard (2021) and various articles. His research focuses on the intersection of theology and continental philosophy.
Dr. Michael Strawser
Michael Strawser is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida, where he served as department chair for a decade. His published books include Both/And: Reading Kierkegaard from Irony to Edification (1997) and Kierkegaard and the Philosophy of Love (2017).