Board of Directors

David Kilpatrick, Ph.D.

David Kilpatrick is Assistant Professor of Literature, Language and Communication at Mercy College, NY. He earned his Ph.D. in comparative literature and M.A. in philosophy at Binghamton (SUNY). His areas of specialization are violence and representation, modernism, history of drama and the theory of criticism. He has published on Nietzsche, Bataille, Mishima, Nitsch, Barker, and is a theater critic for The Brooklyn Rail.

Frank Chouraqui, Ph.D.

Jerry Koch

Kaity Creasy

Yunus Tuncel, Ph.D.

Yunus is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle. Doctoral dissertation on Nietzsche’s philosophy, “The Principle of Agon in Nietzsche’s Thought.” (The New School for Social Research, 2000). Dr. Tuncel has been teaching philosophy at the New School; courses taught there include: Introduction to Nietzsche; Notions of Power from Nietzsche to Foucault; Ecstasy, Taboo, and Transgression; The Gay Science: Legacy of the Troubadours; and Wagner and Nietzsche: A Dialogue on Art and Culture.

He has recently finished a book on Nietzsche, A Journey in Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality, for which he is seeking a publisher. His areas of research are art, culture, myth, and spectacle. He is interested in the fusion of art and philosophy in various cultural formations.

If anyone is interested in contributing work to the site, please contact us at “ncinfo AT nietzschecircle DOT com.”