Ron Broglio's research focuses on how philosophy and aesthetics can help us rethink the relationship between humans and the environment. His book Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments 1750-1830  covers technology in the British landscape aesthetic. His next book, On the Surface: Thinking with Animals and Art will be out with University of Minnesota Press in 2011. Current projects include a dairy cattle art installation and a book project on British Romantic peasant poetry and agriculture.