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He has been a visiting Professor in Siegen, at Vanderbilt and New York University. Between 2014-2018 he was Director of the Cambridge Concept Lab.
Research Interests
Eighteenth Century British cultural history; the history of aesthetics; conceptual history; philosophical aesthetics; digital knowledge.
Selected Publications
- The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of Human Rights, Fordham University Press, 2013
- Aesthetics and the Work of Art, Ed.
Peter de Bolla and Stefan Uhlig, Palgrave, 2008
- The Fourth of July and the Founding of America, Profile Books, 2007
- Land, nation and culture 1740-1840: Thinking the Republic of Taste, Ed. Peter de Bolla, Nigel Leask and David Simpson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
- The Education of the Eye: painting, landscape and architecture in eighteenth-century Britain, Stanford University Press, 2003
- Art Matters, Harvard University Press, 2001
- The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory, Ed.
Peter de Bolla and Andrew Ashfield, Cambridge University Press, 1996
- The Discourse of The Sublime: Readings in History, Aesthetics and the Subject, Blackwell, 1989
- Harold Bloom: Towards Historical Rhetorics, Routledge, 1988; reissued 2014
Professor Peter de Bolla is Professor of Cultural History and Aesthetics in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.
Peter De Bolla - Curriculum Vitae#
Qualifications:
PhD, University of Cambridge, 1983; M.A University of Cambridge, 1982; B.A. University of Cambridge, 1979
Teaching:
University of Cambridge 1987 – present; Drake Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt University, 2008; Visiting Professor, Graduertenkolleg, University of Siegen, 1991; Assistant, Department of English, University of Geneva 1982-1987.
The aim of the Lab is to test and refine the methodology of conceptual parsing and to create a database of specific conceptual architectures in historical projections.
His books include The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of Human Rights, The Fourth of July and the Founding of America, The Education of the Eye: painting, landscape and architecture in eighteenth-century Britain, and Art Matters.
A Fellow of King's College, de Bolla has been a visiting Professor in Siegen, at Vanderbilt, at New York University, and Uppsala.
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His research interests include eighteenth century British cultural history; the history of aesthetics; conceptual history; philosophical aesthetics; digital knowledge.
He is also the Director of the Cambridge Concept Lab in the Cambridge Centre for Digital Knowledge at CRASSH.
Project management:
Board of Management, The Re:Enlightenment Project, New York University, 2009 - present; Centre for Digital Knowlegde, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 2013 - present; International Panel of the Danish Council for Independent Research Humanities 2011-2012; Chair of Panel 2012-2013;
Prof Peter De Bolla, King's
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Biographical Information
Peter de Bolla has been Professor of Cultural History and Aesthetics since 2009.
It seeks to describe in detail conceptual processing whereby concepts are constellated in patterns that connect one concept to another.
Invited papers:
Europe (Ghent, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Sils Maria, Utrecht, Copenhagen, Geneva, Zurich and Yverdon), North America (Yale, NYU, Vanderbilt, UC Santa Barbara, Stanford, USC, Caltech, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Rutgers, Notre Dame, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, UC Davis, Syracuse, Rochester, Washington D.C., Montreal) Australia (University of Western Australia, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, University of Adelaide, University of Brisbane) and the UK (Bristol, York, Southampton, Cardiff, Gregynog, Birmingham, Canterbury, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Colchester, Oxford, Cambridge.
The Concept Lab in the Centre for Digital Knowledge treats concepts as structured environments for arriving at understanding.