Aaron Hanlon, Colby College
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BIO
Aaron R. Hanlon is an associate professor of English and affiliated faculty in Science, Technology, and Society at Colby College, with research interests in philosophy of fiction, Enlightenment history and philosophy of science, and the computational study of literature. He is the author of two books, A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism (University of Virginia Press, 2019) and Empirical Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and the co-editor of British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 (Bucknell University Press, 2023). His current book project, under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press, is “Understanding Science Denial.” In addition to his academic research, he has published over 75 popular press articles in venues including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and others. Aaron completed his doctorate in literary history of Enlightenment Britain at the University of Oxford in 2012 and is an avid supporter of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. in the English Premier League.
Bio
Aaron R. Hanlon is an associate professor of English and affiliated faculty in Science, Technology, and Society at Colby College, with research interests in philosophy of fiction, Enlightenment history and philosophy of science, and the computational study of literature. He is the author of two books, A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism (University of Virginia Press, 2019) and Empirical Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and the co-editor of British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 (Bucknell University Press, 2023). His current book project, under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press, is “Understanding Science Denial.” In addition to his academic research, he has published over 75 popular press articles in venues including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and others. Aaron completed his doctorate in literary history of Enlightenment Britain at the University of Oxford in 2012 and is an avid supporter of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. in the English Premier League.