Jacob Henry Leveton

School of Materialist Research

I work on the philosophy of literature and visual culture at the intersection of Continental aesthetics, ecological thought, and media theory. My research asks how art metabolizes memory, dissent, and ecological crisis—tracing perception and resistance across Romanticism, Indigenous futurisms, and contemporary sonic media.

From William Blake’s illuminated ontology to The Cherokee Phoenix, from Laura Tohe’s operatic reimaginings to the sonic poetics of Sigur Rós and Hozier, I engage the political and metaphysical stakes of representation—particularly where artistic form bears witness to breakdown and survivance.

I currently serve as Research…

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