Benjamin Morgan is an Associate Professor in UChicago’s Department of English Language and Literature. His research and teaching focus on literature, science, and aesthetics in the Victorian period and early twentieth century. His first book, The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature(University of Chicago Press, 2017), explores how nineteenth-century sciences of mind and emotion generated new and controversial explanations of the human experience of the arts. His current book project, In Human Scale: The Aesthetics of Climate Change, asks how art and literature try to bring long and vast processes of ecological devastation into human frames of reference. The project argues that this “scalar disjuncture” originates with British industrialization and earth sciences.