Titles

• Senior Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Affiliated Faculty, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation

Biography

Ron Broglio's research focuses on how philosophy and aesthetics can help us rethink the relationship between humans and the environment. His book Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments 1750-1830 (Bucknell 2008) develops the phenomenological engagement between bodies and technology in the British landscape aesthetic. His work On the Surface: Thinking with Animals and Art (University of Minnesota Press, Fall 2011) develops a language for animal studies through examination of contemporary art and phenomenology. Current projects include a dairy cattle art installation at the University of Waterloo, a book project on British Romantic peasant poetry and agriculture, and a manifesto on the animal revolution.

Education

• PhD, Romanticism and Literary Theory, University of Florida, 1999
• MA, British Literature, Boston College, 1993
• Post BA, World Religions, Loyola University of New Orleans, 1991
• BA, English/Philosophy, St. Meinard College, 1988

Expertise

• animal behavior
• technologies of representation
• environmental philosophy
• aesthetics
• humans and the environment
• agrarian societies
• conservation
• ecological literacy
• environmental humanities
• humanism
• Life on Land

External Links

• Website