Dr Valentin Gerlier

Valentin Gerlier, scholar, songwriter, and musician, leads the Poetics of Imagination programme at Schumacher College. He is also a Fellow and Tutor at the Temenos Academy, Research Associate in Philosophy at the UC-CERES/Institut Catholique Toulouse and a Visiting Lecturer at several institutions including The University of Notre Dame (London Gateway) and the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Grace of Words (Routledge, 2022) and is his forthcoming book is entitled Heaven’s Wildflowers: A Blakean Theory of Nature, Culture and Imagination (Routledge, 2027).