Curator
Gordon Marino is professor of philosophy and director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College. After three years of research on Kierkegaard in Denmark, Marino took his doctorate from the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago. Before coming to St. Olaf in 1995, he taught at Harvard, Yale, and Virginia Military Institute. At St. Olaf, Marino offers courses in existentialism, ethics, Freud, and the history of philosophy. Until 2005, he was also an assistant football coachl at St. Olaf.

A recipient of the Richard J. Davis Ethics Awards for excellence in writing on ethics and the law, Marino is the author of Kierkegaard in the Present Age, co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, and editor of Modern Library’s Basic Writings of Existentialism and Ethics: The Essential Writings. In addition to his scholarly publications, Marino’s essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, the American Poetry Review and many other national publications.

As director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library, Marino is available to consult with scholars on their research and help with Kierkegaard projects. He also directs the Young Scholars Program for advanced undergraduates and supervises publication
of the Reed, an undergraduate journal of existentialism.

Gordon Marino

Assistant Curator/Special Collections Librarian
Cynthia Wales Lund has been the librarian in the Hong Kierkegaard Library since 1986. Her primary responsibilities include the development and preservation of the Library's book, periodical article, archival, and other collections. She works with the curator to provide assistance to students and scholars, facilitate access to the collectons and programs of the Kierkegaard Library , and organize international conferences.

Her interest in intellectual history began at Pembroke College in Brown University where she earned a B.A., majoring in religious studies, and later at the University of Vermont where she earned her M.A. in European history. She completed her M.L.S. degree at the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Prior to her work at St. Olaf, she was acquisitions librarian at Yale Divinity School Library. Lund, author of A Bainton Bibliography, has assisted on a number of St. Olaf College study abroad programs in Europe and the Middle East and has attended the Oslo International Summer School.

Library Collections Associate
Lise Faillettaz has worked for the Hong Kierkegaard Library since 2003.  In addition to providing assistance to students and scholars, she has responsibilities in the areas of collection development, acquisitions, access to periodical articles, and the organization of the historical archives of the Hong Kierkegaard Library.  A graduate of Luther College with a B.A. in English and  French literature, she earned an M.A. in Psychology  from the University of St. Thomas.  Her library background at St. Olaf  includes many years helping develop the Government Documents position in Rolvaag Library.