Benjamin Saltzman

How ‘turning away’ from suffering makes us deeply human A haloed figure in pink sits under a tree, head in hands, near a garden and pink house, with another figure standing nearby and mountains behind.

How ‘turning away’ from suffering makes us deeply human

In new book, UChicago’s Benjamin Saltzman traces the complex “gesture of aversion” through the history of art and literature

When ‘Big Brother’ Isn’t Scary Enough Media citation, NYTimes, Ben Saltzman

When ‘Big Brother’ Isn’t Scary Enough


To understand today’s global data economy, look to the Middle Ages Citation image, Washington Post, Ben Saltzman

To understand today’s global data economy, look to the Middle Ages


Benjamin Saltzman

Benjamin A. Saltzman

Title: Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature and the College

Expertise: Attention, Classical and Medieval Studies, Ethics, Poetry and Poetics, Surveillance Studies, Visual Culture

Departmental website: https://english.uchicago.edu/benjamin-saltzman

Author website: https://www.bsaltzman.com/