Dr. Morton was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on July 4th, 2011 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews
Timothy Morton is a Professor of English at UC Davis, where he teaches literature and ecology, Romantic-period literature, and literary theory. Dr. Morton’s interests include literature and the environment, ecotheory, philosophy, biology, physical sciences, literary theory, food studies, sound and music, materialism, poetics, Romanticism, Buddhism, and the eighteenth century. In addition to being a well-known blogger, he has published nine books and sixty essays – most notably The Ecological Thought (Harvard UP, April 2010) and Ecology Without Nature (Harvard UP, 2007; paperback 2009). Dr. Morton is part of the movement known as Object-Oriented Ontology.