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Saul Anton’s research interests include literature and the visual arts, critical theory and continental philosophy, contemporary art and culture, and the European Enlightenment. He has published articles on Diderot, Rousseau, Kant, Winckelmann, Agamben, Nancy, and others. He is the author of Lee Friedlander: The Little Screens (2015), the experimental critical fiction Warhol’s Dream (2007), and the translator of Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Discourse of the Syncope: Logodaedalus (Stanford University Press, 2008). He is also the editor of Roxy Paine: The Dioramas (Skira, 2021). He has published art criticism and cultural journalism in Artforum, frieze, Bookforum, Afterall, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere.

His current book project, Sovereignty in Ruins traces the concept and the figure of ruins in discourses of sovereignty from antiquity through early modern political thought, the French Enlightenment, and contemporary critical theory.

He is the recipient of research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Getty Center in Los Angeles. In 2026, he was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome.

At Pratt, Saul teaches courses in Horror and Monstrosity, World Literature, Intensive Film Theory, and Contemporary Media Theory, and Degree Projects in Architecture. He is the former Coordinator of the Architecture Degree Projects Writing Program and has also taught at The New School, New York University, and Princeton University.

Ph.D. Princeton University

B.A. University of Michigan

Recent Articles and Essays:

“Babbling Cosmopolitanism: Commerce and the Ruins of Sovereignty in Diderot’s Mélanges pour Catherine II,” Diderot Studies, Vol. 43, 2026.

“The Monster’s Monster,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2026: https://brooklynrail.org/2026/03/art/the-monsters-monster/

“Diderot’s Anarcheological Museum,” in Diderot et l’Archéologie, eds. Lorenz E. Baumer, Fayçal Falaky, and Zeina Hakim (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024), pp. 149-166. DOI : 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-16579-8.p.0149

“Rousseau’s Shameless Beginnings,” Parallax, Vol. 28, No. 3 (2023), pp. 291-303.

“The Parallax View: Spectacle and Memory in Roxy Paine’s Dioramas,” in Roxy Paine: Dioramas, ed. Saul Anton, pp. 141-147.

Books

Roxy Paine: The Dioramas (Skira, 2021). Editor.

Lee Friedlander: The Little Screens (Afterall/MIT Press, 2015)

Warhol’s Dream (les presses du réel, 2007)