Brent Pinkall is a Junior Fellow of Rhetoric at New Saint Andrews College, where he has also served as a Reader of History. He holds an M.A. in Theology and Letters (2017) from New Saint Andrews College and a B.A. in Mass Communications (2010) from Kansas State University. He has ministered for many years in China, where he has taught at a classical Christian college as well as various public universities, including Lanzhou University, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, and Central China Normal University. In addition to rhetoric, he has taught college-level courses in logic, epistemology, history of classical education, classical pedagogy, astronomy, Western culture, English, and English literature. 

Pinkall has authored Redeeming the Six Arts: A Christian Approach to Chinese Classical Education (Roman Roads Press, 2022) and has translated a number of publications for China Partnership and the Center for House Church Theology. He has presented plenary talks at the Association of Classical Christian Schools’ Repairing the Ruins national conference and the Association of Chinese Classical Christian Schools’ national conference. He has also presented at the Society for Classical Learning’s national conference. From 2014-2015, Pinkall hosted twenty episodes of Boke 057 (泊客057), a travel TV show produced by the Gansu Province Television Station in which he traveled throughout China sharing about Chinese culture from an American perspective. He was awarded the Pierre Viret Honors Prize for Distinguished Alumni from New Saint Andrews College in 2019 and was a national finalist in the Chinese Bridge (Hanyuqiao) Chinese language competition in 2012.