Ron Broglio
Biography
Ron Broglio writes books and essays on nonhuman phenomenology and animal studies. He has curated and produced a number of art exhibitions on contemporary environmental art. Broglio is director of the desert humanities initiative at Arizona State University.
He is author of Animal Revolution and Surface Encounters: thinking with animals and art among other books and edited collections including the recently published The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies. He collaborator and co-curator of Trout Fishing in America and Other Stories in which artists Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson examine the cultural life of endangered species in the Grand Canyon. He has performed as Field Marshal of the Animal Revolution and created a number of animal art interventions including Teat Tweet and Santio’s Gift. Currently, he is working on desert phenomenology experiments with the art/design group FoAM and is working on an artistic and theoretical treatise called Animal Revolution: Events to Come. And he is engaged in a number of long-term thinking-making experiments in the deserts of the American Southwest.
Education
- Ph.D. Romanticism and Literary Theory, University of Florida 1999
- M.A. British Literature, Boston College 1993
- Post B.A. World Religions, Loyola University of New Orleans 1991
- B.A. English/Philosophy, St. Meinard College 1988
Videos
Research Interests
Ron Broglio's research focuses on how philosophy and aesthetics can help us rethink the relationship between humans and the environment. His work Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art (University of Minnesota Press 2011) develops a language for animal studies through examination of contemporary art and phenomenology. His books Beasts of Bruden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism (SUNY 2017) and Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments 1750-1830 (Bucknell 2008) develop the phenomenological engagement between bodies and technology in the British landscape aesthetic. Current projects include votive candles for endangered species and a manifesto on the animal revolution.
For more details, see https://www.ronbroglio.com/
Publications
Books
Beasts of Burden: Biopolotics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism. State University of New York Press, 2017
Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Awarded the ASU Institute for Humanities Research Transdisciplinary Book Award 2013
Technologies of the Picturesque. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2008.
Co-Editor. Edingurgh Comapnion to Animal Studies, 2018.
Co-Editor. You Must Carry Me Now: The Cultural Lives of Endangered Species. Forlaget 284 Publishers, October 2015. This is an artist book Trout Fishing in American and Other Stories with a collection of essays from the exhibition symposium. 264 pages.
Editor with Fredrick Young. Being Human: Between Animals and Technology. New York: Routledge, 2015.
a few Recent Articles
“Animality.” Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies. Eds, Lynn Turner, Ron Broglio, and Undine Sellbach. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Winter 2017.
“Romanticism” Cambridge Companion to Literature and Posthumanism. Ed. Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Fall 2016.
“Sheeps, Fairies, and Hogg: Biopolitics of the Ettrick Shepherd.” Essays in Romanticism. 21.2 (2014): 125-140.
“When animals and technology are beyond human grasping.” Special issue We have Never Been Human: From Techne to Animality for Angelaki 18:1 (Spring 2013): 1-9.
“Docile Numbers and Stubborn Bodies: Population and the Problem of Multitude” Special Issue “Numbering” for Romantic Circles Praxis (Spring 2013).
“Abandonment: Giving Voice in the Desert.” Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary (Spring 2013).
Research Activity
- Kitch,Sally L*, Adamson,Joni Lynn, Broglio,Ronald, Chhetri,Nalini, Chhetri,Nalini, Chhetri,Nalini, Cruz-Torres,Maria, Hirt,Paul Wayne, Lussier,Mark Stephen, Mcgregor,Joan Lucy, Minteer,Ben A, Simeone,Michael Paul. Integrating the Humanities across National Boundaries: the Promise of CHCI. DUKE UNIV(7/1/2013 - 12/31/2015).
Courses
| Spring 2022 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 304 | Critical Theories and Methods |
| ART 592 | Research |
| Fall 2021 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| ART 592 | Research |
| ENG 602 | Adv Studies Theory/Criticism |
| Spring 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 502 | Contemporary Critical Theories |
| ART 592 | Research |
| Spring 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 345 | Selected Authors or Issues |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
| ENG 598 | Special Topics |
| Spring 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 502 | Contemporary Critical Theories |
| ARS 592 | Research |
| Fall 2018 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| ARS 592 | Research |
| ENG 602 | Adv Studies Theory/Criticism |
| Spring 2018 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 401 | Topics in Critical Theory |
| ENG 504 | Cross-Cultural Studies |
| SOS 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ARS 592 | Research |
| Fall 2017 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 401 | Topics in Critical Theory |
| ENG 494 | Special Topics |
Service
Advisory Board, Romantic Circles. 2014-present.
Board member of Antennae journal. 2008-present.
Executive Committee Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities. Modern Language Association. 2017-2022.
President, Society for Literature, Science, and Art. 2016-18.
Board member of Art and Research journal. Glasgow School of Art. 2008-2016.