Faculty Member, EXESESO
About
I am a specialist in the history of esotericism in early modern Germany, having published work on early Rosicrucianism, alchemy, Paracelsianism and magic, most notably my book 'The Quest for the Phoenix: Spiritual Alchemy and Rosicrucianism in the Work of Count Michael Maier (1569-1622)'. I currently teach on the Western esoteric traditions at the Exeter Centre for the Study of Esotericism at the University of Exeter; I have also taught courses in this field at the Center for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam and the Institute for Renaissance Intellectual History and Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. My professional career began at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where I lectured on psychoanalysis, parapsychology and the history of mysticism.
