Experience

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

• Portugal
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• COORDINATOR & PHILOSOPHY RESEARCHER at IFILNOVA, Universidade Nova in Lisbon

  • Oct 2017 - Present

• Teaching Doctoral Course in Philosophy

  • Feb 2014 - Present

  JOURNEYS TO SELFHOOD: READING SØREN KIERKEGAARDThis course introduces the complex and rich writings, styles and thought of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. We will try to decipher some of the key themes (the concept of self, despair, anxiety, the demonic, faith, subjectivity, paradox, seduction, passion, inwardness, repetition, choice, boredom and death); diverse modes of existence (aesthetic, ethical, religious); and the use of masks and allegory (pseudonyms, fairytales, interludes, theatre, and indirect communication) in Kierkegaard’s authorship. We will also ask the question why we should read Kierkegaard today and how we might apply his thought to other thinkers and disciplines. Students from different disciplines and faculties are welcome. Show less

• Post-Doc Researcher at Nova Institute of Philosophy [IFILNOVA]

  • Oct 2011 - Sep 2017

  - researching an writing under project title "Theatre of the Self", linking Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, which also includes work on James Joyce and Friedrich Nietzsche: http://www.ifilnova.pt/pages/bartholomew-ryan- coordinator of "Pessoa and Philosophy" Group at the AELAB in IFILNOVA, Universidade Nova de LIsboa, Sept 2015- Oct 2017 : http://www.aelab.ifilnova.pt/- core member of "Nietzsche International Lab" in Lisbon: http://www.nietzschelab.com/ Show less



IFILNOVA; Universidade Nova de Lisboa

• IFILNOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

• PESSOA & PHILOSOPHY seminar and research group

  • Sep 2015 - Present

  The new research entity within the Aesthetic&Ethical Lab (AELAB) of IFILNOVA, called “Pessoa and Philosophy”, began in September 2015 and promises to be a very exciting and challenging interdisciplinary project bringing together for the first time professors, researchers, writers, poets and thinkers within Portugal and also internationally in thinking about Fernando Pessoa alongside various philosophers and philosophical ideas. The relationship between European philosophy and the poetic thinking of Fernando Pessoa is still a massively overlooked aspect in both philosophical research and Pessoan Studies. This new and timely research project attempts to open up critical discussion and new inter-dialogue crossing disciplines, teasing out the philosophical ideas in Pessoa, his contact with other thinkers, and the philosophical issue of the Fernando Pessoa phenomenon itself. Fernando Pessoa’s unrelenting excavation and indirect critique of the subject, or man’s subjectivity, and in what sense man’s identity can or cannot be understood in terms of the concept of an “I” or “subject” has a massive impact in that a critique of the subject or subjective thinking, rather than being dead, is itself a plurality, and opens up new vistas for creative thinking and praxis in the face of the continual crisis of modernity. The Pessoa and Philosophy seminar and research forum opens up further and new critical discussion on consciousness, cosmopolitanism, deception and masks, post-secular philosophy, style and image, genius and madness, creative mythology, plurality of the subject, value and nihilism, heteronymity, the metaphysics of sensations, non-Aristotelian aesthetics, and analysing the crisis of modernity. The first of many publications, Nietzsche e Pessoa: Ensaios will be published in Feb 2016 with the Portuguese publisher tinta-da-china in Lisbon. Show less



NIETZSCHE INTERNATIONAL LAB -http://www.nietzschelab.com/

• IFILNOVA - Instituto de Filosofia da Nova

• Project Leader for "The Plurality of the Subject in Friedrich Nietzsche and Fernando Pessoa"

  • Mar 2014 - Present

  This project’s theme, “The Plurality of the Subject”, is one of the most fundamental and pertinent issues in modern philosophy and literature which Nietzsche and Pessoa penetrate and embody most deeply and whose paths cross over in various ways and aspects. Nietzsche’s critique of the subject, or man’s subjectivity, and in what sense man’s identity can or cannot be understood in terms of the concept of an “I” or “subject” has had a massive influence on certain thinkers (Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida) in the second half of the twentieth century that ended in the debate of “the death of the subject”. However, what is only now being acknowledged in the last two decades in Nietzsche research is that the critique of the subject or subjective thinking in Nietzsche’s philosophy, rather than being dead, is itself a plurality. Nietzsche’s critique of the subject implies the rejection of the “Cartesian theatre” and suggests a more complex conception of consciousness and a subject that embodies plurality and multiplicity. Pessoa incorporated some of Nietzsche’s thinking and styles into his own work which is yet to be fully explored. There are various points of convergence between the two, such as their abiding interest and exploration of subjectivity, the relation between genius and madness, truth as metaphor, the mask and/or artist as deceiver or liar, boundary between philosophy and poetry, becoming what you are, the question of identity (remembering the opening two words from Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “Who’s there?”), the relation between fate and free-will, and creativity as multiplicity, and the issue of faith and Christianity in modernity. If there is any chance of finding this elusive self as subject, we must lose that self first, in the total dilution of the self as subject in the quest for the self as subject. This project explores the idea that Nietzsche and Pessoa’s desire is to create forms which would capture a multiple self, the self as process rather than product. Show less



The Loafing Heroes

• www.theloafingheroes.com

• Musician / Songwriter

  • 2006 - Present

  Defying precise categorisation, the constantly evolving international band offers a cosmopolitan blend of folk, poetry, world music and pop, a tapestry of lush harmonies and contemplative lyrics that is “beautiful without being afraid of being beautiful” [Altamont Music Magazine]. The music draws upon influences as eclectic as the members themselves, with haunting ballads giving way to smoky jazz numbers and then to dreamy folk song—tales of loss and rediscovery, of isolation and transformation. Albums: meandertales (2019) The Baron in the Trees (2016) Crossing the Threshold (2014) Planets (2011) Chula (2010) unterwegs (2009) videoclips: 'Stairs': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd__gdI61ic ‘O Outro Lado’: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YkMLRgO4lFw Link to songs online: http://theloafingheroes.bandcamp.com/album/the-baron-in-the-trees Website: https://www.theloafingheroes.com/ Review of the new album "The Baron in the Trees": “An album from 2016 but that, proudly, could be from 1968 or 1983, without following any fashions or trends … It is a very beautiful record, without being afraid of being beautiful. An album that you want to listen in winter time by the fire, but which also promises to shine flourish this spring.” - Revista Altamont INTERVIEWS: ARENA SHOW, RTE Radio 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVQzz1Cn7hg IRISH TIMES article: http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/the-loafing-heroes-raggle-taggle-songs-about-casement-and-kierkegaard-1.2024260 BOURBON INTERVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOT166STi_c OTHER WEBSITES: https://www.facebook.com/TheLoafingHeroes Show less



University of Lisbon

• Portugal
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Professor

  • Feb 2013 - Jul 2013

  Teaching Masters and Doctorate course juxtaposing Fernando Pessoa and Søren Kierkegaard in the Program in Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon. For more information, see: http://www.fl.ul.pt/ptl-continue-in-english/ptl-courses Teaching Masters and Doctorate course juxtaposing Fernando Pessoa and Søren Kierkegaard in the Program in Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon. For more information, see: http://www.fl.ul.pt/ptl-continue-in-english/ptl-courses



Bard College Berlin, A Liberal Arts University

• Germany
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lecturer - Seminar Leader- Researcher

  • Jul 2007 - Sep 2011

  Courses taught at European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin: Electives: - The Cracked Ballad of the Existential Self (2010) - Journeys to Selfhood: Reading Søren Kierkegaard (2009, 2008) - Wandering through Modernity: Reading James Joyce's Ulysses (2008, 2009) - The Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer (2009) - “I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On”: Reading Samuel Beckett (2009) Acadamy Year Core Course: - The Concept of Property (2009, 2008) - Art and Politics in Renaissance Florence (2009) Project Year Reading Groups: - Heinrich von Kleist's Tales (2011) - Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia (2011) - Spinoza's Ethics (2009) - Nietzsche's Human All-Too Human (2009) International Summer University - Prussia: Philosophy, Rebellion and the State (2011) - Montaigne and the Making of the Modern Self (2009) - The Mantle of the Prophet: Demons, Saints and Terrorists (2008, 2007) Research and teaching interests include the tension between faith and nihilism in philosophy and theology, European modernist literature, and critical theory. Emails: - bartholomew.ryan1@gmail.com - b.ryan@ecla.de Show less



University of Oxford

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer

  • Jun 2010 - Aug 2010

  Taught courses: The Philosophy and Politics of Money The History of Music in Post-War Britain Taught courses: The Philosophy and Politics of Money The History of Music in Post-War Britain



Søren Kierkegaard Reseach centre

• Copenhagen, Denmark

• Researcher

  • Jan 2007 - Jul 2007

  Also worked here in January 2005-June 2005 Also worked here in January 2005-June 2005



Aarhus University

• Denmark
• Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Seminar Teacher for Masters Class

  • Oct 2005 - Dec 2005

  Taught Masters class on Søren Kierkegaard Taught Masters class on Søren Kierkegaard



St. Olaf College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Researcher

  • Jun 2005 - Aug 2005



University College Dublin

• Ireland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Tutor

  • Oct 2002 - Apr 2003

  - Introduction to Existentialism - Introduction to Eastern Philosophy - Introduction to Greek Philosophy - Introduction to Political Thought - Introduction to Existentialism - Introduction to Eastern Philosophy - Introduction to Greek Philosophy - Introduction to Political Thought