John Tresch
Visiting Scholar
Ph.D., Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
Residence: January 1 - June 30, 2012
Profile
John Tresch earned his Ph.D. in the history of science at Cambridge University in 2003. He is currently holding a position as associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the cultural history of science and technology in Europe, especially France, and the USA from 1750 to the present. Particular interests include intersections of science, technology, philosophy and the arts; media studies; the rhetoric and technologies of science in romanticism, modernism and beyond; ritual, religion and experience in technoscience; and the changing shape and effects of the human sciences. He has held fellowships at Columbia, Northwestern, the University of Chicago, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.Selected publications
John Tresch. The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon. University of Chicago Press, March 2012.
John Tresch. "“Gilgamesh to Gaga.” On fame machines. " Lapham’s Quarterly IV (1 2011)
