Below is a list of researchers and others with an interest in Kierkegaard currently working in (or with connections to) Australia and New Zealand. This list is provided to encourage interaction between researchers in this part of the world. If you'd like to be added to this list please email the website maintainer.

NEW SOUTH WALES

Dr William McDonald

I am currently working (with Professors Andrew Burgess, Steven Emmanuel, & David Gouwens) on A Kierkegaard Dictionary to be published by Blackwell. I will be pursuing this project as a Søren Kierkegaard House Foundation Fellow at St. Olaf College, Minnesota, later this year. I am also working on the dialectics of emotion in Kierkegaard's philosophical psychology, for a project in comparative philosophy (with Tibetan Buddhism).

See also my Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry and my Literary Encyclopedia entries on "Kierkegaard," "Fear and Trembling" and "Repetition."

VICTORIA

Matthew Jacoby B.th, B.Litt (hons) Ph.D (Melb)

Patrick Stokes BA (Hons), PhD (Melb)

- PhD thesis "The Concept of Interest in Kierkegaard's Moral Psychology", University of Melbourne, 2006.

- Currently working on the project "Self, Identity and Refexive Cognition in Kierkegaard's Thought", funded by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities (2008-09).

- Click here for a current list of publications

QUEENSLAND

Dr Richard Colledge

Lecturer in Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
Australian Catholic University
McAuley Campus, Brisbane
Banyo, QLD, 4014
Email: richard.colledge@acu.edu.au

Over 1999-2000 I completed my Licentiate thesis on Søren Kierkegaard's understanding of the self under the direction of Prof. William Desmond at KUL, Belgium. While not a specialist area of research, I continue to be informed by Kierkegaardian thought in my current work.

MA Philosophy thesis: "On the Dialectic of Selfhood in
Kierkegaard's Psychological Works: A Study in Subjective Ontology", Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2000.

PhD Thesis: "Beyond Aletheia: A Critique of Heideggerian
Einaiology", University of Queensland, 2006.

Publications on Kierkegaard:

- "Kierkegaard's Subjective Ontology: A Metaphysics of the
Existing Individual". International Philosophical Quarterly, 44(1), 2004, 5-22.

- "Between Ultra-Essentialism and Post-Essentialism: Kierkegaard as Transitional and Contemporary". Contretemps, 3, 2002, 54-65.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Anthony Imbrosciano

Ph.D. Thesis: A Kierkegaardian Perspective on the Education of Character (University of Sydney, 1990)

Interests: 19th century existentialism - Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, Philosophical Psychology.

NEW ZEALAND

Dr Murray Rae

My chief interest is in the centrality and hermeneutical indispensability of Kierkegaard’s theological convictions. Although I maintain a range of research interests beyond Kierkegaard’s work, I continue to teach, supervise postgraduate work, and write in the area of Kierkegaard studies. Publications include:

- Kierkegaard’s Vision of the Incarnation: By Faith Transformed (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) which is largely a critical analysis of Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments.

- 'The Risk of Obedience: A Consideration of Kierkegaard's Fear And Trembling' in International Journal of Systematic Theology,1.3 (November, 1999) 308-21.

- 'Kierkegaard and the Historians' in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 37.2 (1995) 87-102.

I have also made a number of contributions to the International Kierkegaard Commentary series edited by Robert Perkins.