Who We Are
Valentin Gerlier is scholar, songwriter, and musician and founder of School of Sophia. He led the MA Poetics of Imagination at Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School. He is also a Fellow at the Temenos Academy, Research Associate in Philosophy at the UC-CERES/Institut Catholique Toulouse and a Visiting Lecturer at several institutions including The University of Notre Dame (London Gateway) and the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Grace of Words (Routledge, 2022) and his forthcoming book Heaven’s Wildflowers: A Blakean Theory of Nature, Culture and Imagination (Routledge, 2027).
Gabriel Thomas Stevens is a writer, gardener and trustee at School of Sophia. He completed his MA Poetics of Imagination a Dartington Arts School with a thesis interweaving the I Ching and The Odyssey. He works as a jobbing gardener in London and is currently involved in the restoration of the garden of Dr Martin Lings in Kent.
Daniël Eikeboom is administrator at School of Sophia. He works as a poet, translator and playwright, including the works of Dostoevsky, the Book of Job and Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies. He also hosts yearly pilgrimages within Walking School Peripatetica, focusing his research on mythology and metaphysics in the Italian Alps. Daniël is currently affiliated with St. John’s College, Annapolis.