Ron Broglio is an associate professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University. His research focuses on how philosophy and aesthetics can help us rethink the relationship between humans and the environment. His book 'Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art' (2011) asks what is an animal phenomenology and how might it be thought through art, while 'Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments 1750-1830' (2008) considers the influence of technology in British landscape aesthetics. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/surface-encounters