Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson

Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson is a first-year Ph.D. student in Film and Media Studies and Comparative Literature whose research orbits the intellectual history of “form” and the material cultures through which competing theories of form emerge. Focusing on the problematic materialities of extraction, Nathaniel seeks to better understand the matrix of labor, nature, and technology in a range of accounts of twentieth-century cultural history and critical and media theory. He is interested in broader cultural theorizations of form and aims to expand what critics include in intellectual histories of form. Previously, Nathaniel studied literature and media at Cornell University (B.A.) and the Freie Universität Berlin (M.A.) and worked as a managing editor for projects in the “Anthropocene Formations” group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.