The Senior Research Fellows are appointed annually by the HKL Curator to scholars who are associated with the Hong Kierkegaard Library and who show great enthusiasm for the study of the Danish philosopher.
RECIPIENTS
Gordon Marino
On August 31st Gordon Marino officially retired as Curator of the Hong Kierkegaard Library after 27 years. But, he will continue his connection with the Library as a Senior Research Fellow. Dr. Marino earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and B.A. from Columbia University. His areas of specialization include History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and Kierkegaard.
Over the years he has made a huge impact on the HKL as both a philosophy professor and a mentor to Kierkegaard scholars. Outside of his role as curator, in 2018, Marino published his most recent book, The Existentialist’s Survival Guide. He has authored and co-authored numerous works, including Kierkegaard in the Present Age. His articles have appeared in internationally-acclaimed news sources and periodicals such as the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and the American Poetry Review. For more information on his work, see his website at: https://www.
Maxwell Parlin
Maxwell Parlin is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Area Studies at St. Olaf College. His primary interests unite literature, philosophy, and religion: the Russian novel (especially Dostoevsky) and the Existentialist tradition (especially Kierkegaard). His current book project interprets Dostoevsky’s major fiction in light of Kierkegaard’s concepts. Before coming to St. Olaf, he received his PhD from Princeton University.
Charles Djordjevic
Dr. Charles Djordjevic is an analytically trained philosopher. His primary interest is in the role(s) that pain and suffering play in philosophical reflection and empirical research. This focus has led him to constantly engage with both Kierkegaard (notably, his Climacus texts) and the later Wittgenstein, often attempting to build bridges between them and their respective accounts of human finitude. Currently, he is examining pain from a biomedical perspective. To this end, he teaches Bioethics at Lorain County Community College (Ohio, USA) and works as a nurse at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Ohio, USA).
Dr. Djordjevic earned his BA in Philosophy with honors from Kenyon College (Ohio, USA), his MSc in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences with distinction from The London School of Economics (London, UK), and his Ph.D., summa cum laude, for a dissertation on Wittgenstein from the University of Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland). Additionally, Dr. Djordjevic holds a Bachelor of Nursing Science degree, summa cum laude, from Cleveland State University (Ohio, USA).
He has held several postdoctoral appointments, including: a research post at the University of Zurich under the Chair of Social Theory and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences; a research stay at the TINT Centre for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Helsinki, Finland); and was the Hong Kierkegaard House Foundation Fellowship at St. Olaf College (Minnesota, USA). He has published several articles in key philosophical journals like Synthese and The Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook.
His website, with a complete list of publications, talks, research interests, etc., can be found at: https://charlesdjordjevic.weebly.com/
Carson Webb
Carson S. Webb, Ph.D., publishes and speaks on philosophy and theology, has held fellowships at the University of Georgia, Syracuse University, and St. Olaf College, has received grants from the European Union and the Council of Independent Colleges with support from the Lilly Endowment, and previously held the Harry R. Butman Chair of Religion and Philosophy at Piedmont University. His current research puts Kierkegaard’s thought into dialogue with the rise of the purportedly secular discipline of psychology and its uncritical reliance on certain strands of late medieval and early modern ethics. The result is an alternative understanding of modernity that opens the possibility for living joyfully today.
Thomas Millay
Thomas J. Millay is the author of You Must Change Your Life: Søren Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Reading, forthcoming from Cascade Press. Tom’s CV can be found here.
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