Todd McGowan is a professor at the University of Vermont, widely considered as an expert in G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy, and a prolific writer in cultural studies and film committed to the theoretical exposition of questions about existence, psyche and society that can contribute in to the creative process.

His classes focus on major figures, Hegel, Marx, Freud, and he delves into how their ideas manifest themselves in the most important films, television series, and other media to provide a new way of thinking about spectator and image as founded on desire.

Peter Rollins is an author, philosopher, storyteller, producer and public speaker who has gained an international reputation for overturning traditional notions of religion and forming “churches” that preach the Good News that we can’t be satisfied, that life is difficult, and that we don’t know the secret.

Challenging the idea that faith concerns questions relating to belief; attacking the distinction between the sacred and the secular. It critiques theism and it sets aside questions regarding life after death to explore the possibility of life before death.

Isabel Millar is a philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist from London. Her first book is based on her doctoral thesis, The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence, and was published in 2021 in The Palgrave Lacan Series. She is currently writing her next book Patipolitics for Bloomsbury Philosophy.

Millar received her PhD in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis from Kingston University in 2021. She is an Associate Researcher at Newcastle University, Department of Philosophy and Research Fellow and Faculty at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies.

Richard Boothby is a professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, he is the author of Sex on the Couch, Death and Desire, Freud as Philosopher, Blown Away, and Embracing the Void.

Boothby’s area of speciality includes psychoanalysis, phenomenology, existentialism, and contemporary continental philosophy, and has recently taught courses focused on the foundations of philosophy, politics, and society, humanity and divinity, philosophy of language, as well as the thought of Marx, Heidegger and Nietzsche.

Philosophy of Lack is a podcast series featuring Daniel Garner, Tim Adalin, and Alex Ebert. The series aimed to reinvestigate foundational philosophical concepts, like Being, Atoms, Forms, and Dialogos through the psychoanalytic lens of lack. The Philosophy of Lack will return with a special private session for students at the end of the Écrits course.

O.G. Rose (Michelle and Daniel Garner) spent several years working collaboratively with other artists at Eunoia, a creative community they helped develop. They now live on a farm, manage a wedding venue named Mead Lake Lodge, and teach piano using visuals from the DLG Pattern Method. A finalist for the UNO Press Lab Prize and Pushcart Nominee, Rose’s creative works appear at The Write Launch, Iowa Review, Burningword, Broken Pencil, and elsewhere, with published works on Amazon.

Tim Adalin is a transformative philosopher and founder of Voicecraft. He shares writing inspired by a broad set of themes and questions pertaining to the nature of being, becoming and culture, as well as invitations to participate in local and online Voicecraft gatherings, expeditions and courses, along with other digital material and collaborations.

Alex Ebert is an incidental musician and philosopher (among too many other things, incidentally). His interest in philosophy began (unbeknownst to him) more than a decade ago, with his development of a peculiar mathematical function (magnetic zeros). Said function is now the centerpiece of his philosophy of sublation (freQ theory), and, for better or worse, serves as his platinum-selling band’s name.