Daniel Herman
Humanities

danielh@maybeckhs.org

BA English with Honors
Lafayette College

PhD Literature
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Daniel Herman has been at Maybeck since 2015, teaching various Humanities classes (literature, philosophy, religion, history, etc). He received his doctorate in Literature in 2011, from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, under the supervision of Vincent O’Sullivan, former Poet Laureate of New Zealand.

Daniel is the author of Zen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick, which arose from his years of residential Buddhist practice at the San Francisco Zen Center (Tassajara and Green Gulch) and overseas. He organized the first San Francisco Moby-Dick Marathon in October 2015, which has since become an annual event. Daniel is also a Faculty Associate at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking.

 Other interests include pizza, coffee, Bob Dylan, the redwoods, and the New York Mets. Daniel lives here in Berkeley, with his wife, two young daughters, and medium-sized dog.