Bartholomew Ryan is a visiting lecturer at the European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin since July 2007. He received his Ph.D. from Århus University, Denmark in 2006, MA at University College Dublin (in which he was awarded the Magennis Prize 2002) and BA at Trinity College Dublin. His main areas of interest/research include Kierkegaard, nihilism and belief in 19th and 20th c. philosophy, Spinoza, and the conflict between culture, dialogue and existence. In 2005 and 2007, he worked at the Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen and Minnesota, and he taught Dostoevsky and the roots of terrorism at ISU 2007 and 2008, ECLA. He has published articles on Kierkegaard, Joyce, Shelley, Byron, Schmitt and nomadic thinking. He also writes and records music.