 Krell then received a BA from Cornell College in Iowa before graduating from The New School with an MA in Philosophy in 2008.He then moved from New York City to spend a year in Köln, Germany; he has also spent extensive time in Berlin, Germany.He then returned to the United States, moving to Chicago and joining the philosophy department at DePaul University where he is writing a doctoral dissertation on nihilism and German philosophy in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.