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Editorial Review Board

The board includes figures widely recognized for significantly influencing Nietzsche studies during the past thirty years. While their particular interests and approaches diverge, they share a commitment to making the Journal of Nietzsche Studies a venue that serves as an index for the most philosophically provocative research, a genuine guide to the literature through its reviews, and a helpful resource for further inquiry.

R. Lanier Anderson is the current chair of the program committee of the North American Nietzsche Society and has published numerous articles on Nietzsche.
Stanford University, U.S.A.

Keith Ansell Pearson is a co-editor of the first English translation of Nietzsche's Kritische Studienausgabe, and a co-founder of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society. He has charted the course of Nietzsche studies through his many books and articles, his edited volumes, his collections of Nietzsche's writings, and his tireless organizing.
Warwick University, U.K.

Maudemarie Clark has authored many articles and book chapters on Nietzsche, and she is the co-editor and translator of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality. Her Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy (Cambridge, 1990) continues to serve as the gold standard for studies of its kind.
Colgate University, U.S.A.

Ken Gemes has published numerous articles on topics ranging from technical issues concerning logical content and confirmation to Nietzsche’s account of how philosophy is merely the last manifestation of the ascetic ideal. With Dr. Simon May, he is editing Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008) and is also editing with John Richardson The Oxford Handbook on Nietzsche (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009).
Birkbeck College, University of London and Southampton University, U.K.

Lawrence Hatab's many publications include the most extensive application of Nietzsche's philosophy to concerns about democratic political theory, A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy. He is currently writing a volume on Nietzsche's Genealogy.
Old Dominion University, U.S.A.

Kathleen Marie Higgins has authored many influential books and articles on Nietzsche, including Comic Relief: Nietzsche's Gay Science(Oxford 2000).
University of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.

Christopher Janaway is the author of Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche’s Genealogy (Oxford University Press, 2007), Reading Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), and Schopenhauer (Oxford University Press, 1994), as well as several other books and more than 30 articles on Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and aesthetics.
Southampton University, U.K.

Brian Leiter is well known to Nietzsche scholars for his widely acclaimed work Nietzsche on Morality (Routledge, 2002), as well as many articles developing his interpretation of Nietzsche as a naturalistic philosopher.
University of Chicago, U.S.A.

Paul S. Loeb has published numerous papers on Nietzsche, particularly on Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which he is co-translating as part of the KSA project.
University of Puget Sound, U.S.A.

Alexander Nehamas' Nietzsche Life as Literature (Harvard, 1985) arguably changed the course of Nietzsche studies for an entire generation. He recently utilized funds from a Mellon Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities award to acquire one of the world's finest collections of Nietzsche's works for the library at Princeton University.
Princeton University, U.S.A.

David Owen is another co-founder of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society and author of multiple books and many articles on Nietzsche. He has played a major role in the development of the philosophy program at the University of Southampton, now home to four recognized experts on Nietzsche.
Southampton University, U.K.

Graham Parkes has earned international acclaim for his translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Oxford, 2005), which is informed by his vast knowledge of Asian philosophy.
University College Cork, Ireland

John Richardson authored a work widely regarded as the most significant study in English on Nietzsche's conception of power, Nietzsche's System (Oxford, 1996), and most recently published an extensive treatment of Nietzsche's engagement with Darwinism and his contemporary evolutionary.
New York University, U.S.A.

Richard Schacht's contributions to Nietzsche Studies are nearly immeasurable. In addition to authoring Nietzsche (Routledge, 1985), now a classic in the literature, he has served for many years as the executive director of the North American Nietzsche Society. Schacht's conferences at Allerton are legendary, and their scope is the inspiration for this roster of editorial directors.
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, U.S.A.

Alan Schrift has put forth a singular effort to bridge English and French language studies of Nietzsche. He is co-editor with Keith Ansell Pearson of the Stanford translation of the KSA.
Grinnell College, U.S.A.

Gary Shapiro has authored multiple influential books on Nietzsche and more than sixty articles, most of which significantly engage and apply Nietzsche's philosophy.
University of Richmond, U.S.A.

Werner Stegmaier is a member of the philosophy faculty and director of the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Greifswald (Germany). He is the author of numerous books on Nietzsche and has served as an executive editor of Nietzsche-Studien for nearly a decade.
University of Greifswald, Germany

Gianni Vattimo has authored what are widely regarded as some of the most engaging works on Nietzsche in any language, including Beyond Interpretation: The Meaning of Hermeneutics for Philosophy (Stanford, 1997) and Nietzsche: Philosophy as Cultural Criticism (Stanford, 2002).
University of Turin, Italy

Paul van Tongeren directs the Nietzsche Research Center at the University of Nijmegen, and is the author of Reinterpreting Modern Culture: An Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche’s Philosophy (Purdue University Press, 2000), as well as more than 80 articles on Nietzsche, the history of philosophy and moral philosophy. With Gerd Schank and Herman Siemens, he also edits the Nietzsche-Wörterbuch, Band 1 of which was published by de Gruyter in 2004.
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands