Ron Broglio
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Ross-Blakley Hall Room 178 PO Box 871401 TEMPE, AZ 85287-1401
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Mail code: 1601Campus: Tempe
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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 Institute for Humanities Research which supports academic research into what it means to be human in the world and connects university and partner communities to create a more humane and thriving future.
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 co-edits the Desert Humanities book series for Texas Tech University Press.
Broglio was 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 arts, designers, and science collaborators in an art book series Strata (first issues on saguaro, rocks, and lines & borders).
- 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
