John Tresch is professor of history of art, science, and folk practice at the Warburg Institute, University of London. His publications include The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon, The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science, and Cosmograms: How to Do Things with Worlds (forthcoming). He has taught at U Penn, Northwestern, and Columbia, and was editor of the History of Anthropology Review from 2014 to 2025. His current research examines the intersections of anthropology, natural science, and mysticism at the Eranos meetings.