Jonathan Morton is a specialist of Western European medieval literature and intellectual history. He has held positions at the University of Oxford, King's College London, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and Columbia University, and since 2019 he has been teaching at Tulane University in New Orleans. In 2018 he published The "Roman de la rose" in its Philosophical Context: Art, Nature, and Ethics (Oxford UP) and his most recent book, co-written with musicologist Elizabeth Eva Leach is Performing Desire: Knowledge, Self, and Other in Richard de Fournival's "Bestiaire d'amours" (Cornell UP, 2025). His research and writing focus especially on medieval literature in French and Latin, while ranging across the history of philosophy, history of science, and art history. While at the American Academy in Rome, he will be completing his current book project, Engines of Invention: Thinking Machines in the High Middle Ages, which considers, inter alia, the medieval tradition of Virgil as a maker of robots; twelfth-century Latin cosmological allegory; medieval machine theory; cognitive science; and the romance tradition of Alexander the Great.