E. bpines@usfca.edu
EDUCATION
PhD Philosophy, Staffordshire University, 2016.
M.A. Philosophy, Duquesne University, 2013.
B.A. Continental Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, University of Redlands, 2011.
AREAS OF SPECIALITY
Aesthetics, Psychoanalysis, Nineteenth Century German Philosophy, Twentieth Century French Philosophy, Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy and culture.
PUBLICATIONS
Nietzsche and Van Gogh: Imaginations of 1888 – June 2025, Cambridge Scholars
Understanding Nietzsche, Understanding Modernism – February 2019, Bloomsbury
Chapters This Volume:
Introduction: The Heroism of Friedrich Nietzsche
Der Antichrist: a Book for Barbarians, Slaves, and Cave-dwellers
Danger
The Revaluation of all Values
Review: I am Dynamite! - The Agonist, Vol 11, Fall 2019
The Horse Episode - New Nietzsche Studies, Vol. 12, No 2, Fall 2024
INVITED TALKS
The Feminine in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, Stanford University, Philosophical Reading Group, November 2016
Antichrist: A Nietzschean Attempt at Propaganda presented “Nietzsche & Critical Social Theory” San Diego State University, 2017
Lacan on Transference, Stanford University, Philosophical Reading Group, May 2018
Economic Anarchy University of Hilo Hawai’i, PACT, September 2021
Nietzsche and Van Gogh: Autumn, Forschungskolloquium Klassik Stiftung Weimar, July 15, 2022
The Importance of Philosophy in Neuroscience, Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. February 2023.
Ancient Conceptions of Health and Disease. How to Understand Psychiatric Illness in the 21st Century. Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. March 2023.
How to Distinguish Language and Thought? Philosophy in Conversation with Neuroscience, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University. March 2023.
Dwelling from the Paleolithic to Diogenes, Seattle University, PACT, September 2023
Nietzsche and the Horse, University of Hawai’i Hilo, CCPC, June 2024
Nietzsche and Van Gogh Radio Broadcast. Entitled Opinions, with Robert Harrison, Professor Emeritus of Literature at Stanford University. August 2024 https://entitled-opinions.com/2024/08/16/nietzsche-and-van-gogh-with-brian-pines/
Two Conceptions of Time, Loyola Marymount University, PACT, October 2024
Cassirer and Hoffer on Mass Movements Stanford University, Philosophical Reading Group, April 2025
Nietzsche’s last thought in Turin, University of Turin, CCPC, June 2025
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of San Francisco
Plato: Fall 2023
Ethics: Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2024
Existentialism: Fall 2019, Summer 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2024
Great Philosophical Questions: Fall 2020
Aesthetics: Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Summer 2025
Philosophical Essay Writing: Summer 2025
College of Marin
Introduction to Philosophy: Fall 2024
Hiking with Nietzsche: Summer 2025
Mount Tamalpais College
Comparative Religion: Summer 2024
Social Ethics: Summer 2025
Monterey Peninsula College
Philosophy of Religion: Spring 2019
Moral Issues: Summer 2019
Staffordshire University
German Idealism: Spring 2016
History of Modern Philosophy: Fall 2015
Heidegger: Spring 2015
Aesthetics: Spring 2014
Nietzsche: Fall 2013
The Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, Redlands University
Introduction to Continental Philosophy: Fall 2011
Eyes of The World (Co-Facilitated with Dr. Fred Rabinowitz): Fall 2009
OTHER RELEVANT ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Conducted a study funded by a Staffordshire University research grant. This study identified and cataloged issues that arose from international distance learning programs, and made recommendations that were adopted in the Implementation of a distance learning research program at Staffordshire University, Fall 2015
Co-organized international conference at Staffordshire University funded by the Research Council, “Kant, Judgement, and Recent French Philosophy,” December 2015
Frequent contributor and presenter at the “Philosophy Reading Group” organized by Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Professor Robert Harrison at Stanford University, 2016-2023
Proposal Reviewer for Bloomsbury Academic division, 2019-present
Membership in Nietzsche Circle, American Society for Aesthetics, and Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Nietzsche Fellow, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Summer 2022
DAAD Fellowship, Winter 2023-24
LANGUAGES
Native English
Intermediate German
RELEVANT WORK HISTORY
Adjunct Professor, College of Marin, 2024-Present
Lecturer, Mount Tamalpais College 2024-Present
Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco, 2019-Present
Adjunct Professor, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA, 2019-2020
Private Academic Tutor 2020 - Present
History Department Mentor, AJ Tutoring, Palo Alto, CA, 2016-2020
Lecturer, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent UK, 2014-2016.
Student Lecturer, Redlands University, Redlands, CA, 2009-2011