Timothy Morton
Timothy Bloxam Morton ( born June 19, 1968) is an American writer, philosopher and professor of English literature at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His research interests relate to Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley and the Romantic period. Beyond the Language and Literatures drop his publications in the field of ecology, as well as in the philosophy, where his writings play a role in the so-called object-oriented ontology. In this context, Morton coined the term hyper objects as objects which are extended so heavily in time or space, that they think about the possibility that transcend partially.
Morton studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and received his PhD in finally on the performative and communicating function of diet in the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Prior to his appointment at Rice University in 2012 Morton taught at the University of California, Davis, New York University and at the University of Colorado, Boulder.