JACOB HENRY LEVETON

Scholar of Visual Culture, Critical Theory, & Ecology. Based in Evanston, IL, USA.

Welcome to my website. Here you will find information about my research, teaching, and curatorial work. Sincerely looking forward to your thoughts, engagement, and correspondence.

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Upcoming/Recent Talks, Events, Engagements

"The Aesthetics of Displacement and the Critique of Global Extractive Reason: William Blake’s Book of Urizen (1794/1818)," 109th annual College Art Association Conference, February 12, 2021.

Co-Principal Investigator, COVID-19: Critical/Creative Studies in Music, Image, and Text, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

Interview, Carry the Fire Podcast, April 23, 2020. Preview the episode, here.

New Writing

Collations Book Forum on Ian Newman's The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution, V21 Collective: Victorian Studies for the 21st Century, August 31, 2021.

"Seeing Ecology: Pollination and the Resistance to Adam Smith’s Theory of Political Economy in William Blake’s Book of Thel (1789)," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 42, no. 5 (February 2021): 537-552.

"The Politics of Breath" in The Empty Gallery, The

Art Institute of Chicago, January/February 2021.