Who We Are
Valentin Gerlier, scholar, songwriter, and musician, led the MA Poetics of Imagination programme at Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School. He is also a Fellow and Tutor 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 is his forthcoming book is entitled Heaven’s Wildflowers: A Blakean Theory of Nature, Culture and Imagination (Routledge, 2027).
Daniël Eikeboom completed his MA Poetics of Imagination with a thesis on the Book of Job and F.W.J. Schelling. He works as a poet and playwright, including his latest translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Last year he founded Walking School Peripatetica, focusing his research on mythology and metaphysics in the Italian Alps. Daniël is currently affiliated with the Pascal Institute, Leiden.
