Peter L. de Bolla

Professor Peter de Bolla is Professor of Cultural History and Aesthetics in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include eighteenth century British cultural history; the history of aesthetics; conceptual history; philosophical aesthetics; digital knowledge.

He is also the Director of the Cambridge Concept Lab in the Cambridge Centre for Digital Knowledge at CRASSH. The Concept Lab in the Centre for Digital Knowledge treats concepts as structured environments for arriving at understanding. It seeks to describe in detail conceptual processing whereby concepts are constellated in patterns that connect one concept to another. The aim of the Lab is to test and refine the methodology of conceptual parsing and to create a database of specific conceptual architectures in historical projections.

His books include The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of Human Rights, The Fourth of July and the Founding of America, The Education of the Eye: painting, landscape and architecture in eighteenth-century Britain, and Art Matters.

A Fellow of King's College, de Bolla has been a visiting Professor in Siegen, at Vanderbilt, at New York University, and Uppsala.